Basses in a sentence

Extended Range Basses (ERBs) are basses with six to twelve strings—with the additional strings used for range rather than unison or octave pairs.

Gibson EB-3 Whereas Fender basses had pickups mounted in positions in between the base of the neck and the top of the bridge, many of Gibson's early basses featured one humbucking pickup mounted directly against the neck pocket.

If some double bassists have low C extensions, and some have regular (low E) basses, those with the low C extensions may play some passages an octave below the regular double basses.

While the basses on Reverb don’t come with a flame thrower, they’re still hot enough to melt some faces.

With multi-track recording I was able to build arrangements using the instruments I play: guitar, violin, viola, and all sizes of the mandolin family, with splendiferous assistance from Florence Petit's 'cello and Hilary James' basses and cameo vocals.

The property's Basses restaurant, which serves daily meals, serves a fantastic array of international and local dishes with views of the sand dunes and sea in the distance.

The series got your favorite bands together to strip down (well, not like that!) and play more classical instruments, trading buzzy electric guitars for acoustic six-strings and fat electric basses for more refined acoustic ones.

The street is known as Vicars’ Close because the singers, who provide the altos, tenors and basses of the choir, were once called vicars.

The Rockford Aces (tenors and basses) will compete in two categories: Pop Ensembles, delivering their trademark a cappella pop, and Musica Contemporanea: featuring all new music, including a World Premiere to be composed by their director, Mr. Scott.

This seems to cover the basses.

The primary sponsor is Staten Island-based Valenti Basses.

This year the Jazz Foundation has a good selection from which to choose, including guitars, acoustic and electric basses, drums, wind instruments such as trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, flutes, and even an xylophone.

Acoustic instruments can also be made out of artificial materials, such as carbon fiber and fiberglass (particularly the larger instruments, such as cellos and basses).

Additionally in orchestration, notes may be placed into another register (such as transposed down for the basses ), doubled (both in the same and different octaves), and altered with various levels of dynamics.

Also, some composers write divided (divisi) parts for the basses, where upper and lower parts in the music are often assigned to "outside" (nearer the audience) and "inside" players.

Another common tuning used on early five-string basses is E-A-D-G-C, known as "tenor tuning".

Another unusual pickup configuration is found on some of the custom basses that Billy Sheehan uses, in which there is one humbucker at the neck and a split-coil pickup at the middle position.

As both the British invasion and the 1960s came to an end, Rickenbacker guitars fell somewhat out of fashion; however Rickenbacker basses remained highly in favor through the 1970s and on.

A string orchestra has only string instruments, i.e., violins, violas, cellos and double basses.

At the introduction of the main theme, the cellos and basses take it up and play it through.