What’s nearly 12 feet tall, made of wood, and capable of producing a sound so low that most human beings can’t even hear it? That would be the octobass, the largest string instrument ever brought into ...

The lowest string instrument in the world plays some very low, very mellow Mozart, thanks to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra has just become the only ensemble in the ...

The octobass is a huge stringed instrument that is twice the size of a double bass when standing, about 3.6 meters, and the strings cannot be pressed as they are, so the strings are pressed with a ...

The Montreal Symphony Orchestra just announced that it has acquired an octobass, the largest and lowest-sounding instrument of the string family, becoming the only orchestra in the world to have this ...

So far all the musical instruments that made this list of unusual musical instruments with weird names were rather modern creations. But the Octobass was designed and produced way back in 1850 by Jean ...

Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) is debuting a new instrument Thursday, one that will be hard to miss. The octobass measures 3.6 metres and weighs 131 kilos. The OSM has the distinction of being the ...

As a radical new two-string violin goes on display in New York, Clemency Burton-Hill looks at some more odd instruments, from the octobass to the theremin. Next month, visitors to the Inside 3D ...

The octobass was created in 1850 with the intent of added some serious low end, because apparently the upright bass just wasn't cutting it anymore. The octobass seems like it's partially played by a ...

Sometimes bigger is better, as in a box of chocolates. But with musical instruments, bigger is just different. The biggest instruments can provide rich, full, low notes, but those often come at the ...