Larry Hunt

I think that shopping by brand is not the most productive way to go about buying a bass unless you are a beginner and want a quality student model.

If you're experienced and you want to buy a quality professional instrument, brand name alone won't make you decide. You may play a $40,000 Panormo only to find out that a $6500 Eastman has a better sound and feel. Lots of factors to consider!

If you're looking for a cheapy cheapy cheap bass and you only have $500 - $600 to spend, the brand won't matter. It will be either a cheap instrument made by a reputable company or a cheap instrument made by a generic company.

Buying a double bass (another name for upright bass) is a large investment of money, even at the beginner level. Cheap and/or bottom of the line instruments start around $1200 - $1400 for anything decent. Also remember that you get what you pay for, and cheap instruments are often set up poorly and are difficult to play. The money you saved on the instrument could be wasted on repairs (hundreds to over a thousand dollars in worst cases!!). If you're buying a student bass, consider spending a little more if you can afford it.

Try doing a little research into the anatomy of the instrument. Learn things like carved vs. plywood, roundback vs. flatback, 3/4 vs. 7/8 (or full size), D neck vs. Eb neck, violin corners vs. Busetto corners, French bow vs. German bow, orchestral tuning vs. solo tuning, ebony fingerboard vs. painted fingerboard, etc.

It wouldn't hurt to know something about strings, pickups, bow brands, amplification, etc.

It may seem like a lot of information, but just think of it as a reference guide. Better to do a lot of research ahead of time! None of these things may affect your purchase, but it's good to be in the know.

Concerning brands, here are a few that are popular.

$1200 - $1400 (student model): Engelhardt, Shen, and Cremona. There are other student brands out there if you look.

Other instruments that run anywhere from $4000 to over $20,000 (and higher): Solano, Eastman, Schnitzer, Wilfer, Kolstein, Shen, Pöllmann, Arvi, etc.

Like I said earlier, unless you're looking for a good student model, don't shop by brand alone. Find a shop that has several basses in there and play them all. Go to a few shops. Make a list of your top five favorites. For each one of those, keep note of five basses you don't like. If you're in the Northeast/Mid Atlantic Region there is Shank Strings in PA, Bob's House of Basses in MD, and Solano Basses near Richmond, VA. Also check out the websites for Upton Bass, Lemur Music, Bob Gollihur, etc.

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

The bassoon is adouble reed instrument. The reed is attached to a bocal (or crook) which is slipped into the tenor (wing) joint. The body of the bassoon is wrapped around itself in the boot joint which holds the bass joint, the longest one. The bell joint is at the end of the instrument where the sound comes out. The bassoon has a total of 16 thumb keys, 12 for the left and 4 for the right.

It is the lowest member of the String Family.

Not really none are really easier than others, string instruments are harder to play than other families because they require a good ear which is useful for instance so you can tell if a note is the right pitch, to sharp, or to flat. you will find with any string instrument that the fattest string will be the hardest string to get a good sound from which is why there are different bows for each instrument.

My violin teacher recently advised me to switch to viola because i have really big hands (and I'm proud of it, etc). So maybe if you have small hands (short fingers) you should play a smaller instrument and if you have large hands (long fingers) you should play a larger instrument.

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The standard tuning for double bass is in fourths with the highest string tuned to G two octaves below middle C (actually an octave and a fourth below middle C to be precise which would be the bottom line on the Bass (or F) clef.

The remaining strings of course would be D, A, and E below this G string.

It is common for orchestral players to extend the length of the low E string with a fingerboard extension to extend down to a C.

In addition, it is not uncommon to find find string basses in orchestra especially in Germany and Austria.

In this case the lowest string is tuned to a B below the low E string or sometimes to the C below.

Best way i have found is if you purchase a headphone jack splitter and connect 2 bass pedals into the splitter... the game wont recognize you have two pedals and will allow you to use double bass... works brilliant! only hard bit is getting a single bass pedal as there not sold separately EBay or your friend is the best way! Hope it helps :)

Gasparo da Saló is the great bass maker. Others famous makers, just to name a few: Maggini, Gofriller, Montagnana, Panormo, Fendt, Landolfi, Storioni, Baldantoni.

Several instruments make use of both bass and tenor clefs. The most common ones I can think of presently are the cello and the bassoon. Much of the time, music is written in bass clef, but can change when the passage to be played moves up to a higher register where tenor clef would be appropriate.

The double bass is a very commonly used instrument in many styles of music, including orchestral, jazz, rockabilly, bluegrass, and early rock-and-roll. In rock music, it was used most famously by the Stray Cats.

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They are both used on the upright string bass. A French bow uses a grip similar to that of a cello, viola, or violin bow, with the hand resting on top of the bow and your palm facing downwards. The German bow is designed differently and uses a stronger grip, making somewhat of a fist and having your palm face upwards. Most bassists tend to use the German bow.

They are the same as those an a bass guitar, if that helps. so, imagine you are holding the doulble-bass, about to play. The string on the far left (the highest note) is a G, the next one along is a D, then A then E.

The string bass (the biggest instrument in the string family) has two different styles of bowing, and two different bows to accommodate them. The most common one you see is the English style, in which the bow is held with the fingers and is perpendicular to the forearm. The other style is the German style, in which the bow is held in the hand and is parallel to the forearm. There are advantages and disadvantages to both kinds of playing. Mostly it boils down to how you were taught- players tend to stick with what they are most familiar with.

The bass bow is so short that it is possible to have these two styles. The higher the instrument, the longer the bow, so you can't really manage the German style on a violin, viola or cello.

Anywhere from 10 Pounds for lighter drums, and 30 Pounds for larger, higher quality ones. Your average snare will be about 20 Pounds.

The body of a full size double bass, or what they call a 4/4 double bass, measures around 75 inches. With the addition of the end pin, the pole at the bottom of the body, the double bass can get up to around 7 feet tall.

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It is a plucked, fretted, stringed electrophone. In other words, it has strings which are plucked; the strings are pressed down behind metal frets to determine pitch, and the instrument's sound is amplified electrically. Less technically, it is most closely related to the electric guitar, with some input from the orchestral double-bass, and it has acoustic ancestors including the Mando-bass, the Bass Banjo and the Contrabass Balalaika. The actual Acoustic Bass Guitar, however is a recent invention, dating from no earlier than the late 1960s.

Usually maple for the neck, back, sides and bridge; spruce for the top; ebony for the nut, fingerboard and tailpiece, brass or steel for the tuning machines and steel for the end-pin. Strings may be steel, gut (sheep intestines), silk, nylon or a combination. Many cheaper instruments have a body made from laminated wood (plywood) - they will be stronger but will not sound as good as solid wood. In the mid-20th century, some basses were made from aluminum (US: aluminum) or fibreglass (US: fiberglass) - these are no longer made. Recently a few companies have begun to make high-quality instruments from carbon fibre. These are light, virtually indestructable and have a tone comparable to that of a fine solid wood bass.

On Madden '08 for the PlayStation 2, a double pass play is known as the 'HB option.' Find the passing icons by tapping the X button.