George Speed of the TSO shows us how the double bass works and its role in a performance.

“I took a bass string, put it on the guitar, and tuned it in unison an octave lower than the A string so I'd still be able to play with all six strings.” Joe Perry reveals his unusual ...

Double majors: The College of Music supports undergraduate students who pursue double majors in music and other fields. Current and past College of Music double bass performance majors pursue double ...

The double bass is the biggest string instrument in the orchestra, and a great instrument to learn if you want to play jazz. It got its name from the job it used to do.

The double bass is the biggest of the string family of instruments - usually weighing nearly 30 kilograms (66 pounds) and with a height taller than most grown men. But whenever there’s an opportunity ...

A double bass, the biggest, deepest beast of the orchestral strings, is embalmed in toffee in a Yarra Valley gallery. Over the next couple of months, with agonising slowness, that toffee will ...

Featuring Joel Quarrington, Double Bass soloist Program: Glinka Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture Peter Paul Koprowski Concertante for Double Bass, Strings and Percussion Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 ...

The double bass — also known as the upright bass, acoustic bass, string bass, contrabass and stand-up bass, among other terms — is loved by many for its big, beautiful shape and its low, warm ...

When 87-year-old Jane Little first saw the double bass, she was horrified. “I thought now why would any girl want to play that," she told NBC News.