Round 3: Tossup 14

A Boston Symphony Orchestra director and virtuoso of this instrument who wrote an F-sharp minor concerto for this instrument was named Serge Koussevitzky. This instrument plays the melody of “The Elephant” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival (15[1])of the Animals. This instrument, whose lowest string can be extended to C with a fingerboard extension, has strings separated by ascending (*) fourths instead of fifths. The second violin in Schubert’s Trout Quintet is replaced by this (-5[1])instrument, (10[1])whose players historically “doubled” an instrument an octave above it (-5[1])and played while standing. For 10 points, the cello is pitched above what lowest string instrument (10[1])in a standard (10[1])orchestra? ■END■ (10[1])

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