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- noun Plural form of
contrabass .
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The production of stringed instruments - guitars, violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses, and large guitars - have great importance in the communities of Paracha, Ahuiran, Aranza, Cheranástico and Nurío.
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Here musical instruments -- violins, violas, contrabasses, mandolins, maracas and güiros, and guitars of the highest quality -- are made.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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Here musical instruments -- violins, violas, contrabasses, mandolins, maracas and güiros, and guitars of the highest quality -- are made.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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The production of stringed instruments - guitars, violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses, and large guitars - have great importance in the communities of Paracha, Ahuiran, Aranza, Cheranástico and Nurío.
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The production of stringed instruments - guitars, violins, violas, cellos, contrabasses, and large guitars - have great importance in the communities of Paracha, Ahuiran, Aranza, Cheranástico and Nurío.
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The complete spectrum of dynamically changing information of the sun, from the lower subvisible frequencies, through the intermediary visible frequencies, to the higher supravisible frequencies, can be thought of as ranging from contrabasses (containing subaural frequencies), through violins, to piccolos (containing supra-aural frequencies), playing together full-time in a 24/7 orchestra.
The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006
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And he utilized the common instruments in original fashion, made the harps imitate bells, the wood-wind blow fanfares, the horns hold organ-points; combined piccolos with bassoons and contrabasses, wrote unisons for eight horns, let the trombones run scales ----
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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The flutes and clarinets toss it in a blanket furnished by an interesting passage in the 'cellos and contrabasses.
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HIGH IMPACT INSTRUMENTS: brasses, contrabasses, percussion.
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Electronika EM - 25 is a synthesizer-strings that has 3 timbre sections: stringed - contrabasses, violoncellos, violins, organ-registers ( "16 '", "8 '", "4 '", "2 '"), wind-trombones, trumpets.
MATRIXSYNTH 2009
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