The Double Bass is a string instrument. Other instruments in the orchestral family of string instruments are the violin, viola and cello.
The biggest standard string instrument is a double bass.The largest ever built (in 1850) was called an octobass, a giant 3-stringed double bass.
Because the double bass is the largest instrument in the orchestra.
The Double Bass.
The cello makes the lowest sound of a string instrument.
The string bass and double bass are actually the same instrument, just with different names. The term "double bass" is more commonly used in classical music, while "string bass" is often used in jazz and popular music. Both refer to the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the string family, played with a bow or plucked with the fingers.
It is called a double bass. ^_^;
The double bass is called so because it is the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the string family, providing a "double" or deeper bass sound compared to other string instruments.
it is a double bass instrument
That would be the Double Bass, also knows as a Bass Fiddle.
The Double Bass or the Contrabass is the lowest member of the string family.
The Double Bass is the largest string instrument not a guitar in this answer. Timbre- dark, dull, rich, low, jazzy
The Contrabass and Double Bass are just different names for the same instrument. It can also be called String Bass as well.