Introducing the Baroque Double Bass

Where did the double bass of today come from? Cecelia Bruggemeyer, a long-time double bass player with the OAE, introduces its baroque ancestor. NB Violone: literally ‘big viol’ ; a general term used to refer to baroque bass instruments of various sizes and tunings Bass: 1. a general word for a non-specified bass instrument or bass line 2. shorthand for double bass Double-bass (Eng.), Contrebasse (Fr.): a bass stringed instrument that sounds an octave lower than the written pitch