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Meanings of contrabass in anglès

portuguès
contrabaixo
català
violó
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Largest and lowest member of the violin family.

        violó

        Pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range.

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              Sinònims
              Examples for "double-bass"
              Examples for "double-bass"
              1
              João Tordo plays double-bass and is also a famous Portuguese novelist.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Anyway, I didn't need to worry, because she said in her most double-bass tones:
              I capture the castle
              3
              Pierce picked me up on Canal Street; he is built like a fireplug and has a double-bass voice.
              The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
              4
              The laden drays that passed the house in which she lived rumbled a deep double-bass to the tune of love.
              The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
              5
              The signs commonly employed in music for violin, viola, violoncello, and double-bass, to indicate various manners of bowing, are as follows:
              Essentials in Conducting
              Usage of contrabass in anglès
              1
              Last year he appeared as soloist in Koussevitzky's concerts for contrabass.
              The new yorker
              2
              For military purposes, this and the contrabass-thehelicon-arecircular.
              Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
              3
              Anderson uses a contrabass clarinet plumbing its own lowest registers to hint at how deep and dark Oedipus's fate will be.
              Reuters
              4
              Of himself he said that "he was in this world like the E string of a violin on a contrabass."
              Chopin : the Man and His Music
              5
              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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              Frequent collocations
              Translations for contrabass
              Contrabass through the time