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Piccolo bass
A 1963 Hofner Model 185 bass converted to piccolo tuning
String instrument
Classification
String instrument (bowed, fingered, picked, tapped and occasionally strummed)
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
321.322 (Composite chordophone)
Inventor(s)
Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke
Developed
1970s
Playing range
(a standard tuned four-string piccolo bass guitar)
Related instruments
Electric guitar
Double bass
Acoustic bass guitar
A piccolo bass is either an electric bass or acoustic double bass which has been tuned to a higher frequency, usually one octave higher than conventional bass tuning. This allows bass players to use higher registers during soloing while retaining a familiar scale length and string spacing.
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was superseded by the smaller and more compact Piccolo, and later the Power Cube, which was a Piccolobass unit with built-in power amplifiers and optional...
played on piccolobass". Bromberg has produced eight top-ten hits, seven top-five hits, and two number-one hits. He plays a 300-year-old double bass and also...
slide whistle Stanley Clarke – Alembic electric bass with Instant Flanger, piccolobass, acoustic bass, bell tree, handbells Lenny White – drums, timpani...
performed a notable bass solo on "The Chain" from the record-setting 1977 album Rumours. Manowar's bassist Joey DeMaio uses special piccolobass for his extremely...
Blue (1974), Anything Goes (1975), Yellow & Green (1976), Pastels (1976), Piccolo (1977), Third Plane (1977), Peg Leg (1978), A Song for You (1978), Etudes...
from all CD releases of the album.) Stanley Clarke – bass guitar, double bass, organ, piccolobass, bells, gong, vocals Chick Corea – piano on "Song to...
(drums) 1979 Bass Club King Records Trio, with Red Mitchell (bass), Isao Suzuki (piccolobass) 1980* P.S. I Love You Toshiba EMI With Seiichi Nakamura (tenor...
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