Bass instrument

[1] Basses belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles.

[2] Bowed string instruments, include the double bass, the cello and the violone.

[3] Although being bowed instruments, they can be played pizzicato, which is a standard double bass technique in jazz, blues and rockabilly.

[5] In SATB four-part choral singing, the letter B stands for bass, which is the lowest of the four vocal sections.

The basso profondo is a subtype of the bass voice type able to sing low notes, extending to C2 and possibly lower.