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Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
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Examples for "contrabass"
Examples for "contrabass"
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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.
4
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 bass fiddle and the violin right off, and-
2
Did you ever hear of a toy bass fiddle, let alone one that size?
3
You saved a bass fiddle and some magic tricks.
4
Stooping low, Dora sawed away at the kite line, which was as taut as a string on a bass fiddle.
5
Costigan, the cattle-man, a strapping Irish giant, was clearing his throat with ominous sounds that suggested the tuning-up of a bass fiddle.
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At last the big bass viol won the victory and was there.
2
The instruments used are a piano, organ, violin, cornet and bass viol.
3
He played the organ and the bass viol, the organ most.
4
My father's deep Welsh accent cut through the air like a bass viol.
5
A single passenger alighted: a man with a bass viol.
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He wanted a new bull fiddle and found a magnificent seventeenth-century Maggini bass.
2
Umpah ump from the trombone, the bull fiddle and the bassoon.
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The trombone, the bull fiddle and the bassoon ignore her altogether.
4
Why, the old bull fiddle can't fool the convention, Thelismer.
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The bassoon and the bull fiddle-theyumpah ump along.
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Donal brought his double bass into her room and said, Let's play.
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The fiddle and double bass from across the field had fallen silent.
3
Something was bothering her, a double bass and a fiddle gone silent.
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Is a double bass too big for your child to carry around?
5
James Blennerhassett lends light-fingered double bass in the back room too.
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The chief reason is that g is the top note of the string bass, and is called for in orchestral transcriptions.
2
This tour is no exception - drums, percussion, five string bass, keyboards, cello and violin concocting a heady and powerful sound.
3
Her sultry moves and four- string bass are her weapons of mass seduction, unleashed beneath the starry sky of a dusk-fallen California desert.
4
The multitude of instruments are silent-allbut the string basses.
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Grumbling, low-voiced bassoons and droning string basses are among the instruments he uses in an all-purpose piece called "Snow".