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03-09-2011, 07:44 PM
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Double Bass? Acoustic bass? Upright bass? Bass violin? Bass fiddle? What do you call it?
I call it an upright bass, that's just what my teacher says, so that's what I've picked up on.
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03-09-2011, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by BassNoob1  Double Bass? Acoustic bass? Upright bass? Bass violin? Bass fiddle? What do you call it?
I call it an upright bass, that's just what my teacher says, so that's what I've picked up on. | all the above, or just a bass. i've also heard stand-up bass.
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03-09-2011, 08:07 PM
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03-09-2011, 08:59 PM
|  | ...or Jason, if you insist on vowels. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco Bay Area | | | It's a double bass. Calling it an "upright bass" makes sense only in the context of the bass guitar, which wasn't invented until several centuries later.
That said, I don't flinch when others say "upright," and will use the term myself to get my point across. But from an historical standpoint: double bass. |
03-09-2011, 09:12 PM
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03-09-2011, 10:03 PM
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03-09-2011, 10:33 PM
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03-09-2011, 11:02 PM
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03-10-2011, 02:56 AM
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Kontrabasso, translates as a contra-bass.
The "official" name for it in Finnish AFAIK.
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03-10-2011, 04:26 AM
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BassNoob1, et al - See the header at the top of this and every other page of this forum . . .
" Basses [DB] Discussion on the instrument: double bass, string bass, contrabass, bass viol, acoustic bass, upright bass, standup bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, bull fiddle...  "
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03-10-2011, 05:56 AM
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03-10-2011, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by r.t.swing George | Now there's an idea for an interesting thread.... Thanks.
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03-10-2011, 07:10 AM
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03-10-2011, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by r.t.swing That thread is all yours. | It's been done. Maybe it's time to resurrect it. Care to add George to the list?
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03-10-2011, 07:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Exit 4, NJ | | | I have read differing explanations as to why it is called a "double" bass. Anyone care to tell me where the name came from.
Mr. Fallon, my high school band teacher back in 1988 told me it was called a "double" bass because you needed two kids to carry it. I thought it was hilarious at the time. |
03-10-2011, 08:41 AM
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03-10-2011, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by GreggBummer I have read differing explanations as to why it is called a "double" bass. Anyone care to tell me where the name came from.
Mr. Fallon, my high school band teacher back in 1988 told me it was called a "double" bass because you needed two kids to carry it. I thought it was hilarious at the time. | That is funny. But seriously, I always thought it was because it played roughly an octave below the cello, but scoring convention was to write the notes an octave up from actual pitch to avoid all the ledger lines below the staff, hence, either "doubling" a cello, or "double" the octave down. |
03-10-2011, 10:24 AM
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03-10-2011, 11:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Tampa | | I tend to use the word "upright" (I'm a doubler). On a lot of jazz recordings you see the term "acoustic bass." But the introduction of the acoustic bass guitar messed that up, thank you very much .
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03-10-2011, 12:17 PM
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