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- noun music A very large
double bass requiring twomusicians , one tofinger and one tobow
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Have you ever heard of classical music’s lowest (and rarest) string instrument? It’s called the octobass (a.k.a. octobasse) and was built in 1850 by French instrument maker Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
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