Crossword-Solution: BASSES 6 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When the lights went out and the violins began to quaver their long D against the rude figure of the basses, Mrs.

All the fiddles strummed With tuning up; the wood-winds made a ring Of reedy bubbling noises, and the sting Of sharp, red brass pierced every ear-drum; patting From muffled tympani made a dark slatting Across the silver shimmering of flutes; A bassoon grunted, and an oboe wailed; The 'celli pizzicato-ed like great lutes, And mutterings of double basses trailed Away to silence, while loud harp-strings hailed Their thin, bright colours down in such a scatter They lost themselves amid the general clatter.

Part IV _Basses and Chorus_ Father, All-Bountiful, humbly we bend to Thee; Heads are uncovered in sight of Thy face.

She hath made me four-and-twenty nosegays for the shearers, three-man song-men all, and very good ones; but they are most of them means and basses, but one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.

From the balcony la Tinti in return sang Almavida’s _Buona sera_ from _Il Barbiere_, while the Duke’s steward distributed payment from his master to the poor artists and bid them to dinner the next day, such civilities as are expected of grand signors who protect singers, and of fine ladies who protect tenors and basses.