TIJUANATIJUANA — Andrés Martín, a double bass player with the Baja California Orchestra, always wished that music would take him places. That dream is about to become a reality — literally. The Buenos ...

The string bass-building prowess of Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand may not be widely recognized in his hometown of Iowa City. But ask the folks at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, where up to five of his ...

The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a transposing instrument and is ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. There are more strings in the orchestra than all the other instruments put ...

Just a few months ago, patrons of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra heard a concerto for saxophone and orchestra, which is a fairly uncommon pairing. This time around, they will experience something ...

NEW HAVEN -- The second event of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's Family Concert Series showcases an instrument seldom featured, the bass, when "Greta's Dream" is performed at the Omni New Haven ...

Usually, the instrument known as the double bass, or contrabass, which sits in the very last row of the string section of an orchestra, is considered an instrument that simply supplies the harmonic ...