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double-bass

ADJECTIVE
  1. pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range
    contrabass or double-bass clarinet

How To Use double-bass In A Sentence

  • As a musician, he could swap between piano, double-bass and sousaphone; his jazzband held a residency for some years at the Ritz Hotel.
  • The instrumental ensemble is comprised of flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two French horns, and a double-bass.
  • It's got some double-bass, some mandolin, a steel-stringed acoustic guitar, a birdie chirping, and a little drummer boy towards the end.
  • Not knowing which of them wrote what, I can only report that the pit contained two cellos, one double-bass, solo woodwind, brass and timpani.
  • Obviously when people come into the church and they see a double-bass and a drummer and piano player, it has that look of being a jazz combo right from the start.
  • Byron Wallen, vibist Jim Hart, double-bassist Karl Rashid Abel and drummer Graham Godfrey, he made fine contemporary work of Modal, Abstract and other Harriott lines. Evening Standard - Home
  • Today on BoingBoing Gadgets, we reviewed a 3G USB modem that works great on Macs and high-end canine gear; listened to The Harmonium; drank a strictly-conforming European pint; watched Belkin try to bring novelty to the world of mouse pads; built an ornithopter and a difference engine; guzzled yoghurt with a specially-shaped spoon; and listened to a beautiful boombox in a double-bass fiddle. Boing Boing
  • Saxophones, accordions, guitars, clarinets, double-bass, and percussion blend with an extensive electronic array of clicks, hiss, static, and sampled voices.
  • It consists of a bass line only, which is to be played on instruments such as the cello, viola de gamba, double-bass or bassoon.
  • As for drummer Fredrik Sandsten, suffice it to say he took the Moon references to another level with a much bigger kit, flying around the tom-toms and engaging in fierce double-bass song finales.
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