bass fiddle

[ beys ]

noun

Origin of bass fiddle

First recorded in 1950–55

The sawing bleat of the agonized bass fiddle cut through the onspeeding clamor, but the guitars could hardly be heard.
Back Home | Irvin S. Cobb
It consisted of two pieces; a clarinet and a bass fiddle, each worse than the other.
Continuous Vaudeville | Will M. Cressy
The aperture in the vesonator was like that of any bass fiddle.
The Holes and John Smith | Edward W. Ludwig
He also gabbled French and Italian, and played upon a thing like a sort of bass-fiddle without a bow, that they call a guitar.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland | Various
A fat water-beetle played a bass fiddle as big and fat as himself, and two pretty ladybugs played the violins.
Twinkle and Chubbins | L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

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