The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or

initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to,
though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the
traditional electric bass guitar and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar
commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A-D-G,
an octavebelow the lowest four strings of the 6-string guitar, which is the
same tuning pitch as an electric bass guitar.

Because it can sometimes be difficult to hear an acoustic bass guitar without

an amplifier, even in settings with other acoustic instruments, most acoustic
basses have pickups, either magnetic or piezoelectric or both, so that they can
be amplified with a bass amp.

Traditional music of Mexico features several varieties of acoustic bass guitars,

such as the guitarrón, a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic
bass guitar played in Mariachi bands, the león, plucked with a pick, and
the bajo sexto, with six pairs of strings.