Though it produces a lovely low sound, the double bass used to be shunted off center stage and not taken seriously as a solo instrument. In the 20th century, the double bass gained greater respect ...

For centuries, the massive double bass has thundered away in a supporting role at the back of the orchestra. As some of the world's top bassists meet for an inaugural solo contest in Texas, the BBC's ...

Usually, the instrument known as the double bass, or contrabass, which sits in the very last row of the string section of an orchestra, is considered an instrument that simply supplies the harmonic ...

Twenty-one double bassists from around the world are earnestly putting bows to the strings of their low pitched instruments in Denton, Texas, this week in the hopes of perhaps emerging with a ...

For centuries, the massive double bass has thundered away in a supporting role at the back of the orchestra. As some of the world's top bassists meet for an inaugural solo contest in Texas, the BBC's ...