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In the concert band, string basses are often found doubling the tubas, given their ability to sustain notes indefinitely, as well as provide a more percussive pizzicato sound than the tubas can. In transcriptions, they often play highly technical orchestral bass parts that can't be reasonably reproduced on a brass instrument.

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