double_bass has definitions from the field of music
1
[ noun ] (music) largest and lowest member of the violin family

Used in print

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

Since it requires only five players , it would seem to fall_into the category of chamber_music - yet it calls_for a double_bass , an instrument generally regarded_as symphonic .

In these readings , the double_bass is either kept discreetly in the background , or it is dressed in clown 's attire - the musical equivalent of a bull_in_a_china_shop .

( Special compliments to the double_bass playing of Johann_Krumpp :

*