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Meanings of contrabass in English
Portuguese
contrabaixo Catalan
violó 
Largest and lowest member of the violin family.
Pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "double-bass"
Examples for "double-bass"
1
João Tordo plays double-bass and is also a famous Portuguese novelist.
2
Anyway, I didn't need to worry, because she said in her most double-bass tones:
3
Pierce picked me up on Canal Street; he is built like a fireplug and has a double-bass voice.
4
The laden drays that passed the house in which she lived rumbled a deep double-bass to the tune of love.
5
The signs commonly employed in music for violin, viola, violoncello, and double-bass, to indicate various manners of bowing, are as follows:
Usage of contrabass in English
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.
Frequent collocations
Contrabass through the time