Double Bass Low G Extensions on a Five String Bass - Because why not??

[Steve Freides]

@David Potts gets this right, IMHO. My quick math gets me 24-1/2 Hz for a low G. The low A, which is also the lowest note on a piano, a few Bosendorfer (sp?) instruments excepted, is 27.5 Hz.

I play piano, and sometimes, when I'm playing a standard and come to the end, I'll hit a lower octave of the tonic as the last note. I've found - this is not original, BTW - that, if the piano is bad enough, I can hit that low A and it will pass for a low _anything_, which is kind of cool but also testimony to how hard it is to make a musical instrument produce that pitch and then how hard it is to hear it.

-S-

 

[bassfacer22]

@David Potts gets this right, IMHO. My quick math gets me 24-1/2 Hz for a low G. The low A, which is also the lowest note on a piano, a few Bosendorfer (sp?) instruments excepted, is 27.5 Hz.

I play piano, and sometimes, when I'm playing a standard and come to the end, I'll hit a lower octave of the tonic as the last note. I've found - this is not original, BTW - that, if the piano is bad enough, I can hit that low A and it will pass for a low _anything_, which is kind of cool but also testimony to how hard it is to make a musical instrument produce that pitch and then how hard it is to hear it.

-S-

That is for sure true.. I've played some things and some notes are so "muddy" and "low" that it doesn't matter..

 

[robobass]

I would ignore all this hertz stuff and just quote Duke Ellington. "If it sounds good, it is good". If it doesn't sound good, then don't play it. If it does, why not?