Contrabass

Contrabass
Contrabass Con`tra*bass", n. (Mus.) The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family; the {double bass}; -- also applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon. [1913 Webster + Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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