Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations ... Meanwhile, [Martin] from the band [Wintergatan] is using marbles to play a bass guitar. [Martin] starts out with a basic setup.

If anything, having more strings typically yields a fuller and brighter sound. However, 12-string bass instruments aren’t ...

Before the era of electric instruments, the bass end of music was handled by big stringed instruments or large brass ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

The instrument is meant to be placed on a table with the larger end toward the performer, and while the right hand plays the melody on the treble strings with a violin bow, accompanying chords are ...

A violin is the highest pitched string instrument and a double bass is the lowest pitched string instrument found in an orchestra. A trumpet is the highest pitched brass instrument in an orchestra ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.