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 ...

ATLANTA — When Jane Little first saw the double bass in her teens, she was horrified. "I thought now why would any girl want to play that big thing," she said. But the double bass is the instrument ...

It is hard to imagine the double bass — the lowest-pitched member of the violin family that resembles a string instrument on steroids — setting the tone for the Sufi song ‘Dama dam mast kalandar’, but ...

When John Edwards plays his double bass, he is extraordinarily engaging. He plucks, tweaks, bows, hits and hums aloud. So engrossed is he that it is difficult to look away. One memorable gig, I ...

Double bass players looking for an easy way to carry their favourite musical instrument may be interested in the TravelBass, the collapsible double bass that packs down small enough to be even carried ...

Think about what Uber did to the taxi industry, or what the smart phone did to the rotary home telephone. What digital photography did to the Polaroid. That is the level of disruption Francois Rabbath ...

With improvising double bassists of the calibre of Olie Brice, John Edwards, Dominic Lash, David Leahy, Peter Marsh, Marcio Mattos, Jordan Muscatello and Guillaume Viltard being regulars on the London ...