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bass guitar

electric or acoustic bass instrument
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bass guitar
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Summary

bass guitar is a type of musical instrument[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of type of musical instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,019 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: bass[3], electric guitar[4]
  • Commons category: Bass guitars[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bass guitars[6]
  • Used by: bass guitarist[7]
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 513[8]
  • Different from: electric guitar[9], Chitarra basso[10]
  • Lowest note: C♯[11], D[12]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

bass guitar has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 26d ago · StarTrekker · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → bass, electric guitar
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Subclass of: electric guitar"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 2666, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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