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Fans who saw ZZ Top during their recent tour stop in Huntsville, Ala. witnessed an unusual sight, as bassist Elwood Francis briefly performed using an oversized 17-string bass. The mammoth instrument ...

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This isn’t a small encounter; a string bass is a big deal. It can be double the trouble, double the pleasure. Making them from scratch is a labor of heroic proportions. On an overcast Tuesday morning ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...