Editing Double bass (section)

==Terminology==
[[File:Ron plays.JPG|thumb|upright|left|Jazz bassist [[Ron Carter]] at Altes Pfandhaus in [[Cologne]]]]

A person who plays this instrument is called a "bassist", "double bassist", "double bass player", "contrabassist", "contrabass player" or "bass player". The names '''contrabass''' and  double bass refer (respectively) to the instrument's range, and to its use one octave lower than the cello (i.e. the cello part was the main bass line, and the "double bass" originally played a copy of the cello part; only later was it given an independent part).<ref name="briefhistoryofthedoublebass">{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1187/Music/basshist.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027140138/http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1187/Music/basshist.html |archive-date=27 October 2009 |title=A Brief History of the Double Bass, Lawrence Hurst, Professor of Double Bass, School of Music, Indiana University |date=27 October 2009 |access-date=21 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G3kbFU4ndLsC&pg=PA458|title = A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1480-1880)|last1 = Maitland|first1 = José Alexander|last2 = Wodehouse|first2 = Adèle H.|year = 1879|page=458}}</ref> The terms for the instrument among classical performers are contrabass (which comes from the instrument's Italian name, {{lang|it|contrabbasso}}), '''string bass''' (to distinguish it from brass bass instruments in a [[concert band]], such as [[tuba]]s), or simply bass.

In jazz, blues, rockabilly and other genres outside of classical music, this instrument is commonly called the upright bass, '''standup bass''' or acoustic bass to distinguish it from the (usually electric) [[bass guitar]]. In [[folk music|folk]] and bluegrass music, the instrument is also referred to as a "bass fiddle" or "bass violin" (or more rarely as "doghouse bass" or "bull fiddle"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bull+fiddle |title=bull fiddle |website=TheFreeDictionary.com |access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref>). While not a member of the violin-family of instruments, the construction of the upright bass is quite different from that of the [[acoustic bass guitar]], as the latter is a derivative of the electric bass guitar, and usually built like a larger and sturdier variant of a [[viola de gamba]], its ancestor.

The double bass is sometimes confusingly called the [[violone]], [[bass violin]] or [[bass viol]].