Violin family instruments

The octobass is an extremely large and rare bowed string instrument first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875). It has three strings and is essentially a larger version of the double bass – the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures in length, whereas a full-size double bass is generally approximately in length.

small bowed string instrument

class of stringed instruments

a term variously applied during the baroque period to instruments of the violin family

small stringed instrument of the baroque period

bowed string instrument of the violin family

string instrument family