Question: what is the difference between a cello and a bass fiddle?
Answer: The chief difference between the two are the sizes. The bass fiddle is considerably larger than a cello. The strings on a bass fiddle are E-A-D-G, the exact reverse of a violin which is the family that it comes from (hence the name "fiddle"). A cello has the strings C-G-D-A and is an octave higher than the contrabass.