Bass

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Bass or Basses may refer to:

Fish

• Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species

Music

• Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range:
  • Any of a number of bass instruments, including:
    • Acoustic bass guitar, with a hollow body
    • Bass clarinet, a clarinet with a lower sound
    • Bass cornett, a low pitched wind instrument
    • Bass drum, a large drum
    • Bass flute, an instrument one octave lower than a flute
    • Bass guitar, with a solid body and electric pickups
    • Bass recorder, an instrument one octave lower than the alto recorder
    • Bass sarrusophone, a low pitched double reed instrument
    • Bass saxophone
    • Bass trombone, a lower pitched trombone
    • Bass trumpet
    • Bass violin
    • Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument
    • Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass
    • Tuba, often called "the bass" in the context of brass instruments
• Bass (voice type), a type of classical male singing voice
• Bass clef, the musical clef used for lower-sounding instruments and voices
• Bass music, broad category of electronic dance music genres, focusing on a prominent bass drum and/or bassline sound
• Bass note, the lowest note in a chord
• Bassline, or bass line, a term used in music for a lower-pitched part
• "Bass", a song by Robyn Hitchcock from his 1986 album Element of Light
• "Bass", audio file on Culture Vulture (EP) by Jesus Jones (2004)
• "Bass (How Low Can You Go)", a 1988 single by Simon Harris; also his 1989 album Bass!
• "Basses", a movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album

Businesses and organizations

• Bass Brewery, a British brewery
• Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)
• G.H. Bass & Co., an American footwear brand founded in 1876
• Bass Pro Shops, an American outdoors company

People

• Bass (surname)
• Bass Reeves (1838–1910), notable deputy U.S. marshal

Fictional characters

• Chuck Bass, a fictional character in the novel and television series Gossip Girl
• Bass Armstrong, a character from Dead or Alive
• Bass Monroe, fictional character in Revolution
• Bass and Bass.EXE, Mega Man characters

Places

Australia

• Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania
• Bass Pyramid, a small island in the Bass Strait
• Bass, Victoria, a town in Australia
• Bass Coast Shire, a local government area in Victoria
• Division of Bass, a federal electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
• Division of Bass (state), state electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
• Electoral district of Bass, a state electoral division in Victoria, Australia
• Shire of Bass, a former local government area in Victoria, Australia

United States

• Bass, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, U.S.
• Bass, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, U.S.
• Bass, Casey County, Kentucky, U.S.
• Bass, Missouri, U.S.
• Bass, West Virginia, U.S.
• Bass Creek, a stream in Missouri
• Bass Lake (disambiguation), a number of places and lakes
• Bass River (disambiguation)
• Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, or simply Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

Elsewhere

• Bass, Hansi, a sub-tehsil of Hisar district, Haryana, India
• Bass Lake (Ontario), several lakes
• Bass River (disambiguation)
• Bass Rock, or the Bass, an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland
• Basses, Vienne, a commune of the Vienne department in France

Other uses

• Bass diffusion model, or Bass model, a mathematical marketing model
• Beneath a Steel Sky, a 1994 computer adventure game
• Buttocks, in slang
• BASS [ru], a freeware cross-platform audio library and API
• USS Bass, several vessels of the U.S. Navy

See also

• Bas (disambiguation)
• Base (disambiguation)
• Bass House (disambiguation)
• Basse (disambiguation)
• Bassline (disambiguation)
• Drum and bass, a type of electronic dance music
• Figured bass, a kind of integer musical notation
• Miami bass, a type of hip hop music
• Ghettotech or Detroit Bass, a form of electronic dance music
• Sebastian (name)

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