The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

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There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put together, and they are very often at the heart of the music. The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the ...

Double Basses - Any other bass-clef C instrument (bassoons, cellos and the like) playing from this part will be doubling it an octave higher; this will do no harm at all, and often it would be ...

The cello, otherwise known as a violoncello, is a bowed instrument with four strings. It's a close cousin of the violin, viola, and double bass. The cello can be played as a solo instrument, as well ...

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Pedro Molina, Spanish double bassist born in 1989 in Murcia (Spain) and based in Porto (Portugal) since 2017. He studied double bass in Spain with Jordi Vila (Alicante) and Jordi Gaspar (Barcelona), ...

Kyle Shepherd has been a professional musician for 20 years. “I started gigging when I was 17 years old,” he notes, adding ...