What is "bass fiddle"

Usage examples of "bass fiddle".

You know how it is, standing up there beating that ole bass fiddle, nothing to look at but the pretty girls in the chorus, a guy gets bored—.

Their rate of fire was so rapid that their roar was like the hoarse song of a gigantic bass fiddle.

The old man met her at the foot of the hill in his truck with the bass fiddle in the back.

Lee, in a moment of irrelevant irreverence, wondered if it was because he was shaped like a big bass fiddle.

The sound was so low it sent shivers through Wiz's bones, as if someone was playing the lowest possible note on the biggest bass fiddle in the world.

Now, as I considered my next move, with monkeys closing in all around me, Imagine low, ominous, pulsing tones plucked from a bass fiddle, threaded through by a single attenuated but muted high note from a clarinet.

The old mysteries of why a man should take up the bass fiddle as a life work and where all the pins go are babes' conundrums compared with the one of why a human being should devote his years to the idiosyncrasies of bullets.

It was a strange, quavering moan, a galvanizing cross between an alien bass fiddle being played by something with twelve hands and the snore of a sleeping brontosaurus.

Seeing the two men together, an image of a bass fiddle and bow flashed through her mind.