Owl uses a combination of electric and double bass. Gypsy jazz can be performed on guitars alone with or without double bass. He also plays instruments including double bass and synthesisers. It is scored for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. He studied various instruments including piano, organ, violin, double bass, and trumpet. Drummerworld named him "the Godfather of Double Bass". It consists of marimba, double bass and drums. Most pickups for bowed string instruments, such as cello, violin, and double bass, are piezoelectric. Erwin is accomplished on several other instruments, including the mandolin, viola, double bass and guitar. It is primarily used on the double bass or bass guitar. Ayers began playing the double bass during middle school. He uses a French bow for his double bass. Eastwood plays fretted and fretless electric bass guitar and double bass. However, bassists use two distinct forms of the double bass bow. The standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.