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The instruments of the modern orchestra & early records of the precursors of the violin family, with over 500 illustrations and plates;, 1910
11 lines. Read by computer on 29 August 2026. Printed page 116. See the scan on archive.org.
1CHAPTER XXIV.
3The Double Bass.
5French, Contrebasse. Italian, Contrabasso or Violone.
6German, Kontrabass.
8The double bass is the largest of the stringed instruments played with a bow, and belongs to the violin family, from which it differs a little in construction.
10Construction. The double bass has slanting instead of round shoulders (resembling in that particular, the viola da gamba), that is to say that where the belly is joined by the neck and fingerboard, the former has a very decided point, whereas in the violin, viola and 'cello, the fingerboard is at right angles to the horizontal part of a wide curve. It is thought that the shoulders of the double bass are of necessity made drooping for additional strength of construction, on account of the strain occasioned by the tightness of the strings; the double bass was formerly made with a flat, instead of an arched back; now the instrument is as often made with an arched as with a
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