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The Double Bass is the lowest-pitched instrument of the String section. It is a hybrid between the Viola da Gamba and the Violin. It is played with a bow or with the fingers. It has four strings and as a difference with the other String instruments they are tuned in perfect fourths beginning with E, and their tunes are E1, A1, D2 and G2. It is the only transporting string instrument, because it sounds an octave deeper than it is written.
It can be played with the bow or the fingers. It is pitched in the key of C and notated in bass clef. Its playing range starts at the E1 and the highest note you can play is the G4. The Double Bass timbre is full and dark in its E strings, while the A string is clearer and more precise. The D and G strings are more powerful and darker than the Cello’s ones.