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Meanings of double-bass in inglés
Pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range.
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Synonyms
Examples for "contrabass"
Examples for "contrabass"
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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.
Usage of double-bass in inglés
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:
6
Even the "orchestra" (as the "singing-seat" was then called) had visitors in addition to the choir and the double-bass players.
7
Taking a double-bass from its resting-place in one corner of the room, he soon had the instrument tuned, and then recommenced with this accompaniment.
8
New album of songs for voice and double-bass "Crossings" is released next month and is full of striking songs and vivid ideas.
9
We have fortunately not yet been reduced to eating our wood-wind instruments; but we think we should need a double-bass to wash them down.
10
The clarionet or 'clarnet,' as he called himself, caused much ill-feeling because he drowned the others, and the double-bass strove ineffectually to avenge himself.
11
In it are a double-bass, violins, a guitar, a mandolin and cornet, two or three ladies, several men, and one hears singing and music.
12
Gorgeous 2012 album of experimental compositions with Kevin Murphy and Thomas Haugh kicking out the jams with double-bass, viola da gamba and especially cello.
13
In his younger days he also played the double-bass and played at the provincial Musical Festivals of 1871 and 1874.
14
His father was a double-bass player in the orchestra in that city, and devoted his son at a very early age to his own profession.
15
The thrash metal genre was distinct for its extremely fast tempo, big double-bass drums and dark themes, often dealing with Satanism, war and serial killers.
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This was a box of a state-room six feet by nine, in which was a most dilapidated double-bass, a violin case and a French horn.