What instrument did the bassoon evolve from?

Answer 1

The Proper name for the Bass Guitar is The Electric Bass.It has a closer relationship with the upright bass rather than the guitar.The first bass that was electrified, was an upright bass that was the size of a cello back in the early 1930's by Paul Tutmarc from Spokane ,Washington. He had taken a pickup made out of a telephone transducer and used the basstrings from a piano as strings for his electric bass. He had first used this pick up on Guitars. He wanted to make it easier for the upright bass to be heard as many on that instrument had to play very hard to be heard without ampification, unless the bass could be mmicrophoned. In 1941, Paul reduced the size of the bass to make it easier to transport and store. It's design looked much like the electric basses that we play today.This bass was known as the Serenader and sold for 139 bucks back in the late 1940's it included a case. In 1951 Guitar maker Leo Fender invented the first successful electric bass known as the Precision Bass. The bass that really made it popular.During the fifties and early 60's the Upright bass was still the dominant bass in Pop Music.The first Jazz bassist to play electric bass was Monk Montgomery. In 1963 Female bassist and Studio legend Carol Kaye picked up a Fender electric Bass and created a sound that became popualr on a many ahit record. James Jamerson also had a distinctive sound .Fender created a second sucessful bass the Jazz bass wich first debuted in 1960. Over the years Fender has kept these basses in production and makes many different models and configurations .Always craeting something new each year. The first bass to feature active electronics was the Alembic Bass the Creation of Ron Wickersham.Stanley Clarke, Phil Lesh and John Paul Jones really popularized the use of these basses. Stanley Still uses Alembics as his main basses after 37 years. The electric bass has evolved thru the years not olny by the many manufacturers of this instrument but also the players. Some are: Jaco pastorius, Larry Graham ( the creator fo the Slap technique on electric bass),Anthony Jackson ,Marcus Miller,Louis Johnson, Rocco Prestia, Bernard Edwards, Geddy Lee,Carol Kaye, Victor Wooten, Lincoln Goines , Mark King and many others. All comments in this post are only as accurate as the information available to me. Please check all sources.The info was contained from several different sources. R. Ford

Answer 2

The bass guitar was designed to be a replacement for a double bass, with the portability of a guitar. It shares the tuning of the double bass, and the body style of an Electric Guitar. I would say that it evolved from a combination of the two.

Answer 3

from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, vol 8 c. 2001 The electric bass guitar was invented by Leo Fender, (formed the Fender Electric Instruments company in Fullerton CA in 1946) and was first marketed as the Fender Precision Bass in 1951. The instrument was introduced to meet the needs of musicans playing the bass part in small dance bands in the USA; they wanted not only a more easily portable instrument than the double bass, but one that could match the volume of the increasingly popular sold-bodied electric guitar and could be played with greater precision than their large fretless acoustic isntruments. Fender's electric bass guitar answered all these requirements. It was based on his already successful Broadcaster, (later named Telecaster) six string electric guitar, with a similar solid body of ash and neck of maple. The four strings were tuned to the same notes as the double bass (an octave below the bottom four of the six string electric guitar) and a single pickup fed controls for volume and tone; the fretted fingerboard offered the precision they wanted. As with the electric guitar, Fender's earliest customers for the Precison Bass were country and western players, but the electric bass, which was quickly adopted by many makers of electric guitar began to infiltrate other popular music forms and has been widely used in pop, rock, jazz, rhythm and blues, reggae and rock. posted by Lesley Williams Evanston Public Library www.epl.org Recently it was established that one Paul Tutmarc had invented and marketed an electric bass guitar as early as 1935 under the name "Audiovox Bass Fiddle". This instrument had a short scale length of 30" and was not a commercial success, but pre-dated Fender's bass by well over a decade.

Answer 4

In the 1930s, inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first guitar-style electric bass instrument that was fretted and designed to be held and played horizontally. The 1935 sales catalogue for Tutmarc's company, Audiovox, featured his "electronic bass fiddle," a four stringed, solid bodied, fretted electric bass guitar with a 30 ½" scale length.[5]. The change to a "guitar" form made the instrument easier to hold and transport, and the addition of guitar-style frets enabled bassists to play in tune more easily and made the new electric bass easier to learn. However, Tutmarc's inventions never caught the public imagination, and little further development of the instrument took place until the 1950s. In the 1950s, Leo Fender developed the first mass-produced electric bass. His Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. The Precision Bass (or "P-bass") evolved from a simple, uncontoured 'slab' body design similar to that of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup, to a contoured body design with beveled edges for comfort and a single four-pole "split coil pickup." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar#1930s

Answer 5

The first bass guitar was invented by Paul Tutmarc in Seattle, Washington, USA in the early 1930's. It was known as the "Electric Bass Fiddle," and appeared in a catalog by Tutmarc's company, Audiovox, in 1935. Much smaller than the double bass, this bass was easier to carry. This bass was not fretted, however, and was not quite as popular as its descendant.

This design was innovated greatly by Leo Fender, founder of what is now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Using a telecaster-body design, Fender came out with the "Precision Bass," a.k.a. "P-Bass" in 1951. It was fretted like a guitar, which allowed players greater ease in playing in tune (hence the name: "Precision Bass"). Not only was this model easier to carry than a double bass, but it was also much easier to play in tune. This model was extremely popular and was the first bass guitar as we know it today.

Answer 6

The Bass Clarinet, in the form we know it today, evolved from earlier attempts at a bass Clarinet. The instruments of the clarinet family has a few traits that make them clarinets, rather than some sort of reed flute or recorder. Probably the three most important traits are a removable single reed, and the related mouthpiece, (nearly) cylindrical shaped bore (not cone shaped), and overblowing at the twelfth note of the scale rather than the octave.

The first clarinet was developed from the chalumeau a shepherd's instrument that had a single register. Once the clarinet was established, there were many attempts to make a clarinet that sounded about an octave lower - a bass clarinet. Adolphe sax developed the modern bass clarinet in the 1840's, a few years before he invented the Saxophone.

Answer 7

The bass guitar comes from the average 6 stringed guitar, exept with thicker strings and less fretts. its pretty much like the guitars little deeper brother.

Answer 8

The bassoon is thought to have developed from the dulcian, a double-reed Renaissance instrument.