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.

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

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

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 ...

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.