Beautiful lines of a Bass Guitar rendered in black and white. The bass guitar is a stringed instrument (usually four-stringed) used in many forms of modern non-classical music. The tuning is standard 'E - 'A - D - G; like a double bass and similar to the lowest four strings of a guitar, but an octave lower. Usually, a bass guitar is fretted, although fretless bass guitars also exist. Most bass guitars are electric or semi-acoustic, but acoustic bass guitars are also made. The acoustic bass guitar doesn't really apply well without amplification and is mostly used in acoustic ensembles such as mariachi orchestras (there they usually use a gitarron (mexicano), a very large six-string acoustic bass guitar with a very large sound box). The sound does resemble more that of a double bass played pizzicato.
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