This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes
It is a member of the violin family of musical 
instruments, which also includes ... Cellos were derived from other mid- to large-
sized bowed instruments in the... [DOC] [TLE] Double bass - Wikipedia [PAR] The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names) is the largest 
and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the ... Like other violin and viol-
family string instruments, the double bass is played ...