The electric string bass and upright string bass — depending on the circumstance — can be treated by the arranger as either string section or rhythm section instruments.

The bass guitar ( also called electric bass, or simply bass ; ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his " Model 736 Bass Fiddle ", a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length.

In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass.

Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.

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.

The disco sound has soaring, often reverberated vocals over a steady " four-on-the-floor " beat, an eighth note ( quaver ) or 16th note ( semi-quaver ) hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat, and a prominent, syncopated electric bass line sometimes consisting of octaves.

* 1986 – Tal Wilkenfeld, Australian electric bass player

John Cambridge, a drummer Bowie met at the Arts Lab, was joined by Tony Visconti on bass and Mick Ronson on electric guitar.

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.

The feedback problem has led to the development of instruments like the electric upright bass, whose playing characteristics mimic that of the double bass.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

Some contemporary bluegrass bands favor the electric bass, because it is easier to transport than the large and somewhat fragile upright bass.

The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.

He devised a detonating fuse in which a short wire was caused to glow by an electric current.

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

The plant was located west of the Battenkill and south of the location of the former electric light plant.

On June 14, 1900 the Manchester Journal reported that an electrical engineer was installing an electric light plant for Edward S. Isham at `` Ormsby Hill ''.

In November 1900 surveying was done under John Marsden on the east mountains to ascertain if it would be possible to get sufficient water and fall to operate an electric power plant.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.

The corridor on the eleventh floor was dimly lighted by electric globes at intervals of thirty feet.

Presently they had to give up running the furnace at full capacity and depend on the old coal range in the kitchen, which had never been removed when the new gas range was installed, and the fireplaces and an electric heater in Grandma's room.

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

Electric street lighting was introduced in 1900 and electric trams were transporting passengers in 1909.

* From the Meiji to the Shōwa period, as the electric railway improved transport to Akihabara and the surrounds, and especially due to the growth in dealerships, the district was designated as a.

The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

" This " split pickup ", introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups ( Fender was marketing a four string solid body electric mandolin at the time ).

The " Fender Bass " was a revolutionary new instrument, one that could easily be played by an electric guitarist, could be easily transported to a gig, and could be amplified to just about any volume without feeding back ".

Since the output of an electric guitar is an electric signal, the signal may easily be altered using electronic circuits to add " color " to the sound.

This arrangement allows the signal to be easily modified by on-board modelling electronics, as in the Line 6 Variax brand of electric guitars ; the guitars allow for a variety of sounds to be obtained by digitally manipulating the signal.

With these light strong instruments and modern wireless amplification these musicians can easily play standing up, move, and even incorporate dance on stage while playing their electric harps.

Nematics have fluidity similar to that of ordinary ( isotropic ) liquids but they can be easily aligned by an external magnetic or electric field.

Hertz observed and then showed that electrodes illuminated with ultraviolet light create electric sparks more easily.

The cost of the conversion was easily offset by the cost savings in electric consumption, the reduction of heat, and the manpower required to replaced burned-out lamps.

George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of Edison's promotion of direct current ( DC ) for electric power distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating current ( AC ) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by Westinghouse.

Thus, when the device is forward biased, with the p-side at higher electric potential, the diode conducts current easily ; but the current is very small when the diode is reverse biased.

The electric susceptibility χ < sub > e </ sub > of a dielectric material is a measure of how easily it polarizes in response to an electric field.

Permittivity is directly related to electric susceptibility, which is a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an electric field.

The band themselves coined the label " low rock " to describe their music, which involved " a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a ' power trio ' not built around the sound of an electric guitar.

The electric field around the object in question causes ionization of the air molecules, producing a faint glow easily visible in low-light conditions.

Powered electric staplers or pneumatic staplers drive staples easily and accurately ; they are the simplest manner of applying staples, however are hindered by a cord or hose.

From the definition of charge, one can easily show that the electric potential of a point charge as a function of position is:

Many modern electric toy trains contain sophisticated electronics that emit digitized sound effects and allow the operator to safely and easily run multiple remote control trains on one loop of track.

It is carefully controlled by light weight portable electric break feeding fences run on mains power that can be easily repositioned.