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Definition of Bass guitar

1. Noun. The guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch.

Definition of Bass guitar

1. Noun. A stringed musical instrument tuned to produce bass or low notes, usually with a fretted fingerboard and 4, 5 or 6 strings. ¹

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Literary usage of Bass guitar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Peri's OPERA "Euridice" required but a harpsichord, bass guitar, bass lute, and a lyre or viola da gamba. Monteverde is said to have employed an orchestra ..."

2. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"Peri's OPERA "Euridice" required but a harpsichord, bass guitar, bass lute, and a lyre or viola da gamba. Monteverde is said to have employed an ..."

3. Black Composers of Southern Africa: An Expanded Supplement to The Bantu by Yvonne Huskisson, Sarita Hauptfleisch (1992)
"... who was promising and able to read music and whom they converted to bass guitar. This was the jazz group called THE DRIVE who won the ALCO BEST BAND ..."

4. I Read It, But I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers by Cris Tovani (2000)
"Jeff thinks for a minute and then says, "I play the bass guitar in a band." "Great," I say. "How do you learn new songs? Do you ask your mom? ..."

5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1867)
"... antique instruments as if from the old family chest of viols, trebles, tenor and bass, guitar sort, ..."

6. Coming Up Taller: Arts And Humanities Programs For Children And Youth At Riskby Judith Humphreys Weitz by Judith Humphreys Weitz (1997)
"Instruction on the instruments of the Delta Blues (bass, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums and voice) is augmented by teaching participants the keys to ..."

7. By-paths in the Balkans by Frederick William von Herbert (1906)
"... and a " tambour- atch" (the word is Bulgarian, no doubt a sense- corruption of the French tambour, drum)—ie a bass guitar, the size of a 'cello. ..."

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