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Are there any string instruments deeper than the double bass?

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Not hard to create one - the technology has been in place for centuries. I'm on the way to a meeting, but I quickly googled Images and saw one of a bass whose body was taller than the player (probably a contra-double bass, an octave lower). read more

There are no lower string instruments in the orchestra. The C extension is applied to the double bass, so we are still talking about the same instrument. In other musical context, the Chapman stick and the 6 string bass guitar also reach the low C or even the low B, depending on the tuning. read more

To play lower than that instrument's lowest pitch on another instrument, just choose or build an instrument physically capable of it. This is primarily a technical matter of scale length and string tension, and secondarily a matter of a resonance chamber and engineering for aural aesthetic and playability. read more

The history of the double bass is tightly coupled to the development of string technology, as it was the advent of overwound gut strings, which first rendered the instrument more generally practicable, as (over‑) wound strings attain low notes within a smaller overall string diameter than non-wound strings. read more

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