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Bass fiddle   /bæs fˈɪdəl/   Listen
Bass fiddle

noun
1.
Largest and lowest member of the violin family.  Synonyms: bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, double bass, string bass.






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"Bass fiddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... orchestra interested Twinkle more than anything else. They were seated upon the broad top of a big toadstool at one side, and the musicians were all beetles and big-bugs. A fat water-beetle played a bass fiddle as big and fat as himself, and two pretty ladybugs played the violins. A scarab, brightly colored with scarlet and black, tooted upon a long horn, and a sand-beetle made the sound of a drum with its wings. Then there was a coleopto, making shrill sounds like a flute—only of course ...
— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum



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