The largest and lowest-sounding stringed instrument - a octobass

In the mid-seventeenth-century violin makers realized that the bass is not able to achieve the lowest possible sound, and proposed to increase it in size. Initially, for the game on octobass it required two people: one drove the bow, the other clamped strings. Such a process was incredibly complex, so was soon coined the mechanism of the pedals and levers, is placed on the tool body, and allows you to play on octobass alone.





Despite the fact that the sound coming from this giant, was much lower than the double bass, he lost his brother undersized depth and richness of sound. So widespread octobass not received, although sometimes used orchestras.



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