Contrabass guitar

In this sense, it may actually be considered as an acoustic bass guitar, for it shares the same low-end range.

Its strings are much thinner than a conventional acoustic bass guitar, so it lacks the "thick" tone of those instruments.

Some players prefer B0–E1–A1–D2–F♯2–B2, which preserves the intervals of a standard guitar tuning (lowered by a twelfth) and makes the top and bottom notes the same pitch.

After guitar maker Carl Thompson made a first, arguably non-satisfying attempt to create such an instrument in 1974, Ken Smith built the first entirely usable electric contrabass guitar in 1982.

[2] The contrabass guitar influenced the development of the six-string electric bass.