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Originally Posted by yindesu
How do people figure out whether that is a double bass or some kind of acoustic bass guitar? (He plays both.)
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Wood bass is a wasei-eigo word for the double bass, so it would not be used to refer to a bass guitar except in error (see
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/コントラバス for example).
For how we classify bass instruments:
- We have a separate role for just "Bass" without further qualifications, so if it's just Bass those credits would go there rather than trying to determine whether it's double bass or bass guitar:
https://vgmdb.net/role/32
- For Double Bass or Contrabass credits those go to the Contrabass role:
https://vgmdb.net/role/74
- For Wood Bass credits, they go to the Upright Bass role:
https://vgmdb.net/role/174
Although Contrabass and Wood Bass refers to the same instrument, they've been split because the credits usually signify different styles of playing and can sometimes even appear together:
(from SQEX-10730)