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Bass stringed instruments not initially tried in music genre (5)

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I believe the answer is:

blues

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'music genre' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for blues that I've seen before include "Feeling of sadness or depression" , "colours" , "US music style" , "Australian redheads" , "Depression - music" .)

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