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Meanings of bass viol in English
Portuguese
contrabaixo Catalan
violó 
Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
Portuguese
viola da gamba Catalan
viola de gamba Viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello.
Synonyms
Examples for "contrabass"
Examples for "contrabass"
1
Last year he appeared as soloist in Koussevitzky's concerts for contrabass.
2
For military purposes, this and the contrabass-thehelicon-arecircular.
3
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."
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.
1
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.
1
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.
3
The trombone, the bull fiddle and the bassoon ignore her altogether.
4
Why, the old bull fiddle can't fool the convention, Thelismer.
5
The bassoon and the bull fiddle-theyumpah ump along.
1
Donal brought his double bass into her room and said, Let's play.
2
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.
4
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.
1
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.
5
Grumbling, low-voiced bassoons and droning string basses are among the instruments he uses in an all-purpose piece called "Snow".
Usage of bass viol in English
1
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.
6
We had no bass viol; could we not make one?
7
The shoemaker sits with his big bass viol, Philepom, Philepom!
8
His parents taught him piano, violin and bass viol.
9
Bowing low, he spoke in a carefully modulated voice, deep and resonant as a bass viol:
10
There were two fiddles and a bass viol.
11
From the gallery came the deeper growl of the bass viol and the preliminary breath of a flute.
12
Thurston obeyed while the high-piled thunder-heads rumbled deep accompaniment, like the resonant lower tones of a bass viol.
13
They discussed their instruments-Jakeplayed a bass viol for High Plainsong-andthe special repertoire they'd prepared for the trip.
14
The bass viol was also called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
15
Yet observe the bass viol!
16
A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English concert.
Translations for bass viol
Portuguese