Watch Musicians Plays Bach & the Jaws Theme on the Octobass, the Gargantuan String Instrument Invented in 1850
Take a look at the live performance above of a Johann Sebastian Bach chaconne. See that monstrous stringed instrument in the back? The one that looks like a movie prop? It’s real, and it’s called the octobass, a triple bass made in 1850 by prolific French instrument maker and inventor Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, whom German violin […]