Geddy Lee playing his Fender jazz bass at a 2008 live performance at the Xcel Energy Center

It was during the making of A Farewell to Kings when Geddy began using a custom made Rickenbacker Bass / Guitar Double Neck, incorporating a 4001 bass and a 480 12-string guitar.

* Geddy Lee — bass guitar, lead vocals, keyboards ( September 1968 – present )

These instruments were also widely used among progressive rock bassists, particularly Chris Squire of Yes and Geddy Lee of Rush, who achieved distinctive signature sounds with their Rickenbacker bass, strung with round-wound Rotosound bass strings.

Geddy Lee originally wrote his bass lines on his acoustic bass.

* Geddy Lee – vocals, bass guitar, twelve string guitar, Mini-Moog and bass pedal synthesizers

* Geddy Lee – lead vocals, bass

* Geddy Lee – bass, classical guitar, vocals

* Geddy Lee-lead vocals, bass, synthesizers

* Geddy Lee – bass guitar, synthesizers, vocals

* Geddy Lee – bass guitar, synthesizers, vocals

* Geddy Lee – bass guitar, vocals, synthesizer

* Geddy Lee – lead vocals, bass

* Geddy Lee, of the Canadian rock trio Rush has played fretless bass on and off since the 1970s.

The guitar player or bass player of a bands such as Genesis ' Mike Rutherford, Yes ' Chris Squire, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin during acoustic sets, Rush ( bassist Geddy Lee ), The Police ( bassist Sting ), Marillion ( Pete Trewavas ) or Atomic Rooster ( organist Vincent Crane ) use the bass pedals to play bass lines.

* Geddy Lee Jazz Bass: A fretted four-string bass guitar in a black finish.

Geddy Lee joined the band onstage to sing and play his Rickenbacker bass guitar for " Battle Scar " on December 31, 1980, when the band headlined the show.

Rush frontman Geddy Lee was also brought in to provide bass for the album track " Good for Sule ".

His bass playing style has been influenced by Toto bassist Mike Porcaro, as well as Geddy Lee from Rush and John Myung of Dream Theater fame.

To achieve a broader, more progressive palette of sound, Alex Lifeson began to experiment with classical and twelve-string guitars, and Geddy Lee added bass-pedal synthesizers and Minimoog.

* Geddy Lee-bass guitars, Oberheim 8 Voice Synthesizer ; OB-1 ; Minimoog ; and Taurus pedal synthesizers, vocals

* Geddy Lee-bass guitars, vocals, synthesizers

* Geddy Lee-bass guitars, synthesizers, vocals

Also of note are the subtle keyboard and synthesizers Geddy Lee uses in the foundation of " Xanadu ", along with their prominent use in the melodic bridge and the chorus section.

* Geddy Lee-bass guitar, synthesizers, vocals

* Alan Parsons-keyboards, acoustic guitar, bass, flute, vocals, vocoder, engineering, production

Holly saw Elvis Presley sing in Lubbock in 1955, and began to incorporate a rockabilly style, similar to the Sun Records sound, which had a strong rhythm acoustic and slap bass.

The Jenerators are a blues-rock band based in Los Angeles, CA featuring Tom Hebenstreit on vocals, electric guitars and keyboards ; Bill Mumy on vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, harmonica, keyboards, and percussion ; Gary Stockdale on vocals and bass ; Miguel Ferrer on vocals, percussion and drums ; David Jolliffe on guitar, percussion and vocals and Chris Ross on drums and percussion.

In jazz and other genres outside of classical music, this instrument is commonly called the upright bass or acoustic bass to distinguish it from the electric bass guitar.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

As well, bass guitars usually have a solid wood body, which means that their sound is produced by electronic amplification of the vibration of the strings, instead of the upright bass's acoustic reverberation.

A trend for " unplugged " performances further helped to enhance the public's interest in the upright bass and acoustic bass guitars.

The acoustic guitar group also includes unamplified guitars designed to play in different registers, such as the acoustic bass guitar, which has a similar tuning to that of the electric bass guitar.

Prime and bass acoustic guitars

The guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass played in mariachi bands.

The instrument is usually acoustic and the harp strings are usually tuned to lower notes than the guitar strings, for an added bass range.

Some electric guitar and electric bass guitar models feature piezoelectric pickups, which function as transducers to provide a sound closer to that of an acoustic guitar with the flip of a switch or knob, rather than switching guitars.

Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars.

' Augmenting the Byrds-like combination of acoustic guitar, bass and drums are soaring brass and string arrangements that can give the music a deceptively upbeat veneer.

Although he played electric bass occasionally during this period, he has subsequently eschewed that instrument entirely, and now plays only acoustic bass.

He began studying piano at the age of nine, showing an aptitude for music by learning to play several different instruments, including the banjo and acoustic and bass guitars.

Instruments used are: acoustic guitar ( usually six strings, but sometimes seven strings ), electric or acoustic bass ( sometimes fretless ), accordion ( sometimes piano accordion, sometimes button accordion ), and sometimes some percussion is used.