| BOWED | played violin or double bass |
| ENDPIN | Spike on a cello or double bass |
| OBLIVION | Old boy played violin in a stupor (8) |
| SCRAPED | Get rid of journalist that's played violin badly (7) |
| UNPROVEN | Leaders never played violin until awful Nero? Throw that out - there are no supporting facts |
| SCREECHY | Our king is into hideously cheesy sound of badly played violin (8) |
| SOUL | Psyche or spirit; essence or essential part; sound-post or "anima" of a violin; or, the lungs of a goose (4) |
| BOUT | A stint of strenuous exercise or overindulgence, for example; a contest or match in boxing, fencing or wrestling; a curve in the side of a violin; or, an attack of illness, such as flu (4) |
| CELLO | Instrument of the violin family between the viola and the double bass |
| NONET | Musical work often scored for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and wind quintet |
| VIOLA | Genus of plants that includes the pansy; or, an instrument in a family that includes cello and double bass (5) |
| TROUTQUINTET | Schubert work for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass (5,7) |
| VIOL | Double bass |
| BULLFIDDLE | Double bass |
| RONDO | Piece from the player on double-bass (5) |
| LONGBOW | Weapon used by a tall double bass player? (7) |
| EBB | Withdraw English double bass (3) |
| GABBLE | Wind drowns double bass and silly talk (6) |
| VIOLONE | Very joyful call over solitary double bass |
| BOWLEGGED | Descriptive of members in double bass section? (3-6) |
