# Bass

Bass or Basses may refer to:

## Fish

* Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species

## Wood

* Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree

## Music

* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range:
** Bass instruments commonly referred to as just "bass", including:
*** Bass guitar, the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family
*** Double bass, the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument
*** Tuba, often called "the bass" in the context of brass instruments
*** Bass saxophone
* Bass (voice type), a type of classical male singing voice
* Bass clef, the musical clef used for lower-sounding instruments and voices
* Bass music, broad category of electronic dance music genres, focusing on a prominent bass drum and/or bassline sound
* Bass note, the lowest note in a chord
* Bassline, or bass line, a term used in music for a lower-pitched part
* "Bass", a song by Robyn Hitchcock from his 1986 album Element of Light
* "Bass", audio file on Culture Vulture (EP) by Jesus Jones (2004)
* "Bass (How Low Can You Go)", a 1988 single by Simon Harris; also his 1989 album Bass!
* "Basses", a movement of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003 album

## Businesses and organizations

* Bass Brewery, a British brewery
* Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)
* G.H. Bass & Co., an American footwear brand founded in 1876
* Bass Pro Shops, an American outdoors company

## People

* Bass (surname)
* Bass Reeves (1838–1910), notable deputy U.S. marshal

### Fictional characters

* Chuck Bass, a fictional character in the novel and television series Gossip Girl
* Bass Armstrong, a character from Dead or Alive
* Bass Monroe, fictional character in Revolution
* Bass and Bass.EXE, Mega Man characters

## Places
### Australia

* Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania
* Bass Pyramid, a small island in the Bass Strait
* Bass, Victoria, a town in Australia
* Bass Coast Shire, a local government area in Victoria
* Division of Bass, a federal electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
* Division of Bass (state), state electoral division in Tasmania, Australia
* Electoral district of Bass, a state electoral division in Victoria, Australia
* Shire of Bass, a former local government area in Victoria, Australia

### United States

* Bass, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Alabama, U.S.
* Bass, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, U.S.
* Bass, Casey County, Kentucky, U.S.
* Bass, Missouri, U.S.
* Bass, West Virginia, U.S.
* Bass Creek, a stream in Missouri
* Bass Lake (disambiguation), a number of places and lakes
* Bass River (disambiguation)
* Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, or simply Bass Performance Hall, in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

### Elsewhere

* Al-Bass (archaeological site), Tyre, Lebanon, and the adjacent Al-Bass refugee camp
* Bass, Hansi, a sub-tehsil of Hisar district, Haryana, India
* Bass Lake (Ontario), several lakes
* Bass River (disambiguation)
* Bass Rock, or the Bass, an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland
* Basses, Vienne, a commune of the Vienne department in France

## Other uses

* Bass diffusion model, or Bass model, a mathematical marketing model
* Beneath a Steel Sky, a 1994 computer adventure game
* Buttocks, in slang
* BASS [ru], a freeware cross-platform audio library and API
* USS Bass, several vessels of the U.S. Navy