Explore: String Bass

lines below the staff. The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like a bass guitar, viol, or the lowest-sounding

extended-range bass is an electric bass guitar with a wider frequency range than a standard-tuned four-string bass guitar. One way that a bass can be considered

electric bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also built. Since the mid-1950s, the electric bass guitar

An eight-string bass guitar is a type of bass guitar with double course strings normally tuned in octaves, with both strings in a course usually played

The twelve-string bass is an electric bass with four courses of three strings each, though they occasionally have six courses of two strings. Normal tuning

usually larger than, a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four

The seven-string guitar adds one additional string to the more common six-string guitar, commonly used to extend the bass range (usually a low B) or also

The washtub bass, or gutbucket, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible

has a ten-string guitar based on the same principle—a combination of standard six-string guitar and standard four-string bass. The eight-string guitar is

A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than