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.

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 double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass fiddle, bass violin, doghouse bass, contrabass, bass viol, stand-up bass or bull fiddle, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2 ( see standard tuning ).

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.

" Rockabilly and bluegrass bassists also prefer gut because it is much easier to perform the " slapping " upright bass style ( in which the strings are percussively slapped and clicked against the fingerboard ) with gut strings than with steel strings.

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

As the music moved into bars and brothels, the upright bass gradually replaced these wind instruments.

Because an unamplified upright bass is generally the quietest instrument in a jazz band, many players of the 1920s and 1930s used the slap style, slapping and pulling the strings so that they make a rhythmic " slap " sound against the fingerboard.

Many upright bass players have contributed to the evolution of jazz.

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.

Apart from the jazz styles of jazz fusion and Latin-influenced jazz however, the upright bass is still the dominant bass instrument in jazz.

While this positioning was of paramount importance in boxing, which involved only upright striking ( with the eyes facing straight ), it was also important in pankration, especially in the beginning of the competition and as long as the athletes remained standing.

After traveling for an extremely long time, they finally came to a place where the pole remained upright.

The valve-rotor bugle remained popular until the late 1970s, when rules changes moved toward two-valve upright bugles.

Although almost all yachts capsized immediately, two of the fleet remained upright and were surfed into shore, having had their masts broken before capsize could occur.

The front three coaches remained upright, and came to a stop to the north of the station.

The train collided with the tunnel wall, but remained upright, and no injuries were reported.

The leading Class 91 locomotive ( 91023 ) and the first two coaches remained upright and on the rails.

Fortunately the derailed vehicles remained upright as they passed through Whitehead tunnel otherwise the consequences could have been much more serious.

The trailing locomotive remained upright and suffered minor damage, although it was derailed.

The run ( the after part of the bottom ) was broad, flat and straight so that once the boat had beached, it remained upright.

A French-owned wagon loaded with steel coil derailed nearly earlier, at Godden Cottages foot crossing ; but as the derailed wagon was mid-train it remained upright and in formation, until striking a crossover at Staplehurst, causing the derailed bogie to disintegrate.

His immunity even extended to the notoriously upright and incorruptible Marshall Seth Bullock, who did not have the political clout to extend his campaign to clean up the town as far as the lower regions of Main Street, which remained Swearengen's territory.

The leading bogie of the Class 310 EMU derailed, but the train remained upright and damage was slight.

The upright bass began making a modest comeback in popular music in the mid-1980s, in part due to a renewed interest in earlier forms of rock and country music.

The shape is similar to a part of human form standing upright.

The strong legs of the Ostrich are unfeathered and show bare skin, with the tarsus ( the lowest upright part of the leg ) being covered in scales – red in the male, black in the female.

An ice-pick type leucotome forms part of the detail around the " S " of the film's title, counterpoised by the final upright of the " H " being a Samurai sword.

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 ( one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser ( modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope ) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it ( used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser.

Gravity plays only a small part in the upright position — in fact, it is possible to swallow solid food even when standing on one ’ s head.

As part of the redesign it was decided to improve access, and the second version was designed to stand upright, like an old fashioned double-door refrigerator, about six feet tall ( roughly 1. 80 m ).

After passing through the chimney and descending to the second angle of the fireplace the Boy finds it completely filled with soot, which he has dislodged from the sides of the upright part.

During the day they perch upright on tree stumps, camouflaged to look like part of the stump.

Whereas a normal pendulum is stable when hanging downwards, an inverted pendulum is inherently unstable, and must be actively balanced in order to remain upright ; this can be done either by applying a torque at the pivot point, by moving the pivot point horizontally as part of a feedback system, changing the rate of rotation of a mass mounted on the pendulum on an axis parallel to the pivot axis and thereby generating a net torque on the pendulum, or by oscillating the pivot point vertically.

" " The students cut off the lower part of the pole and added a flame at the top to turn it into a torch ; they leaned the sculpture into a more upright position ; they changed the man's face to a woman's, and otherwise added feminine characteristics to make the him into a her.

Ice cream cones may also be made with a flat bottom instead of the pointed lower part, enabling the ice cream and " cone " to stand upright on a surface without support.

The flowers of both sexes are borne in 10 – 20 cm long, upright catkins, the male flowers in the upper part and female flowers in the lower part.

Most BCs have at least two vents: one at the extreme top and the other at the bottom of the BC, for use as air migrates to whichever part of the BC is uppermost, the vent situated at the shoulder is used when the diver is upright and the vent situated nearer the diver's waist is used when inverted.

The music for the most part consists of Waits ' hoarse, rough voice, set against a backdrop of piano, upright bass, drums and saxophone.

The basic meaning of the word kibu is midpoint of an upright broad object, such as small of back, mid-slope of a hill, and horizon, which is the midpoint of the universe, between the bottom part which is the earth ( apagœwa lower-ground, or arkath pit ), and the top half, which is the sky ( dapar ).

At the time of launch, the company announced the intention of introducing a station wagon / estate version later that same year, and at least three, prototype station wagons ( estate cars ), which shared much of the sedan's structure and body panels but with more upright rear door frames, were built: one was broken up by Leyland Australia for examination of the body strength, one was crash tested by Ford Australia for Leyland to gain part of the registration certification and the last and only surviving example was eventually used as a factory hack until it was sold at the same auction as the Force 7s as part of a pair of cars which included the last car made.

Whereas other upright serpents usually had metal bells and either a metal or wooden body, the Serpent Forveille was half wood on the part from the middle up to the bell, and metal from the middle to the mouthpiece.

Unfortunately, I overlooked the part played in setting the envelopes upright, and separating them by guide cards.

In general, this dance involves the upright body position at upper part, while the unbent or straight knees always keep equilibrium of movements.

The rear part of the box which is set into the wall is cast as one piece, rather like an upright coffin.