Last year he appeared as soloist in Koussevitzky's concerts for contrabass.
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For military purposes, this and the contrabass-thehelicon-arecircular.
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Anderson uses a contrabass clarinet plumbing its own lowest registers to hint at how deep and dark Oedipus's fate will be.
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Of himself he said that "he was in this world like the E string of a violin on a contrabass."
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Designed in seven sizes from sopranino to contrabass, the saxophone combined the easy fingering of large woodwinds with the single-reed mouthpiece of a clarinet.
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I play the big bassfiddle and the violin right off, and-
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Did you ever hear of a toy bassfiddle, let alone one that size?
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You saved a bassfiddle and some magic tricks.
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Stooping low, Dora sawed away at the kite line, which was as taut as a string on a bassfiddle.
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Costigan, the cattle-man, a strapping Irish giant, was clearing his throat with ominous sounds that suggested the tuning-up of a bassfiddle.
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He wanted a new bullfiddle and found a magnificent seventeenth-century Maggini bass.
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Umpah ump from the trombone, the bullfiddle and the bassoon.
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The trombone, the bullfiddle and the bassoon ignore her altogether.
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Why, the old bullfiddle can't fool the convention, Thelismer.
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The bassoon and the bullfiddle-theyumpah ump along.
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Donal brought his doublebass into her room and said, Let's play.
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The fiddle and doublebass from across the field had fallen silent.
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Something was bothering her, a doublebass and a fiddle gone silent.
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Is a doublebass too big for your child to carry around?
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James Blennerhassett lends light-fingered doublebass in the back room too.
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The chief reason is that g is the top note of the stringbass, and is called for in orchestral transcriptions.
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This tour is no exception - drums, percussion, five stringbass, keyboards, cello and violin concocting a heady and powerful sound.
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Her sultry moves and four- stringbass are her weapons of mass seduction, unleashed beneath the starry sky of a dusk-fallen California desert.
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The multitude of instruments are silent-allbut the stringbasses.
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Grumbling, low-voiced bassoons and droning stringbasses are among the instruments he uses in an all-purpose piece called "Snow".
Ús de bass viol en anglès
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At last the big bassviol won the victory and was there.
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The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bassviol.
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He played the organ and the bassviol, the organ most.
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My father's deep Welsh accent cut through the air like a bassviol.
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A single passenger alighted: a man with a bassviol.
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We had no bassviol; could we not make one?
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The shoemaker sits with his big bassviol, Philepom, Philepom!
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His parents taught him piano, violin and bassviol.
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Bowing low, he spoke in a carefully modulated voice, deep and resonant as a bassviol:
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There were two fiddles and a bassviol.
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From the gallery came the deeper growl of the bassviol and the preliminary breath of a flute.
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Thurston obeyed while the high-piled thunder-heads rumbled deep accompaniment, like the resonant lower tones of a bassviol.
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They discussed their instruments-Jakeplayed a bassviol for High Plainsong-andthe special repertoire they'd prepared for the trip.
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The bassviol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
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Yet observe the bassviol!
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A performer on the bassviol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert.