List of bass instruments
Bass instruments are musical instruments that produce tones in the low-frequency range. They are found across many musical families, including strings, brass, woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion.[1]
String instruments
- Double bass
- Bass guitar
- Contrabass guitar
- Bass violin
- Cello
- Viola da gamba
- Octobass
- Violone
- Bass banjo
- Bass ukulele
- Bass koto
- Barbiton
Brass instruments
Woodwind instruments
- Bassoon
- Contrabassoon
- Bass clarinet
- Contrabass clarinet
- Bass flute
- Contrabass flute
- Bass saxophone
- Contrabass saxophone
- Great bass recorder
- Subcontrabass flute
- Subcontrabass saxophone
Keyboard instruments
- Pipe organ (pedal division)
- Electric organ (bass registers)
- Synthesizer (bass patches)
- Bass pedalboard
Percussion instruments
Other
- Didgeridoo
- Bass harmonica
- Jew's harp (in lower tunings)
See also
References
- ^ Walker, James S.; Don, Gary (2013). Mathematics and Music: Composition, Perception, and Performance. Boca Raton, London and New York: CRC Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4822-0850-4.
- Media related to Bass instruments at Wikimedia Commons