The chief reason is that g is the top note of the string bass, and is called for in orchestral transcriptions.

This tour is no exception - drums, percussion, five string bass, keyboards, cello and violin concocting a heady and powerful sound.

Her sultry moves and four- string bass are her weapons of mass seduction, unleashed beneath the starry sky of a dusk-fallen California desert.

The multitude of instruments are silent-allbut the string basses.

Grumbling, low-voiced bassoons and droning string basses are among the instruments he uses in an all-purpose piece called "Snow".