Grosser Bass
Grosser Bass obs. Ger.: double bass, violone. Leopold Mozart says that there exist many sizes of the instr. but only one tuning, namely, an oct. below the violoncello. The large models had 5 strings rather than 4. Cf. violone.
Grosser Bass obs. Ger.: double bass, violone. Leopold Mozart says that there exist many sizes of the instr. but only one tuning, namely, an oct. below the violoncello. The large models had 5 strings rather than 4. Cf. violone.