Have you ever seen a large case as tall as a person standing in the corner of the music room? In your first ensemble practice ...

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 ...

I am Shinnosuke Iguchi, a double bass player, instructor, and conductor. I received this question in my note question box.I ...

We asked the legendary double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer the internet's most-searched questions about the double bass. Hello I am double bassist and composer Edgar Meyer and I'm being told that ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...

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Classical music bass player, Olalekan Adebayo, has lamented that the Nigerian music industry has no place for the classical double bass instrument. The well-travelled and veteran classic bass ...

The Observer film critic’s first passion was music. In this extract from his new memoir he reveals why slapping the strings till his fingers bled was worth it Mark Kermode: ‘There’s magic in going ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Certain musical instruments are becoming 'endangered' as children turn away from them to other, more popular, ones. The French ...