Double Bass, Banjo, Guitar, Fiddle & Vocals Performance by The Hillbilly Gypsies: John Hardy

Double Bass, Banjo, Guitar, Fiddle & Vocals Performance by The Hillbilly Gypsies: John Hardy @ West Virginia Mountain Heritage Arts & Crafts Festival
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Double Bass:
The double bass or simply the bass (and numerous other names)
is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the
modern symphony orchestra.
It is a transposing instrument and is typically notated one octave
higher than sounding to avoid excessive ledger lines.
The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that
is tuned in fourths (like a viol), rather than fifths, with strings
usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2.
The instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate,
with scholars divided on whether the bass is derived from the
viol or the violin family.
The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra's
string section, as well as the concert band,
and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western
classical music.
The bass is used in a range of other genres, such as jazz,
1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly/psychobilly,
traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many
types of folk music.
Banjo:
The banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed
instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame
or cavity as a resonator, called the head.
The membrane, or head, is typically made of plastic,
although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used,
and the frame is typically circular.
Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans
in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design.
The banjo is frequently associated with country, folk,
Irish traditional and bluegrass music.
Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African
American traditional music, before becoming popular in
the minstrel shows of the 19th century.
The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American
old-time music. It is also very frequently used in
Traditional Jazz.
Guitar :
The guitar is a popular musical instrument classified as
a string instrument with anywhere from 4 to 18 strings,
usually having 6. The sound is projected either acoustically
or through electrical amplification.
It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings
with the right hand while fretting (or pressing against the fret)
the strings with the left hand.
The guitar is a type of chordophone,
traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut,
nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other
chordophones by its construction and tuning.
The modern guitar was preceded by thegittern,
the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar,
and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed
to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
Electric guitars, introduced in the 1930s, use an amplifier
that can electronically manipulate and shape the tone.
Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body,
but a solid body was eventually found more suitable,
as it was less prone to feedback.
Electric guitars have had a continuing profound
influence on popular culture.
Fiddle:
Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument
more often called a violin. It is also a colloquial term for the
instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music.
Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music.
Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk
music on the violin. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk)
styles of music which are aural traditions, taught 'by ear'
rather than via written music.
There are few real distinctions between violins and fiddles,
though more primitively constructed and smaller violins are
more likely to be considered fiddles. Due to the style of the music
played, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge
with a flatter arch to allow multiple strings to be played
simultaneously with more ease, such as the droning in
bluegrass music or performing triple stops.
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