Cello question?

Cellos come in different sizes, but are tuned the same, just like short scale guitars.

the Double Bass "looks" like a cello, but is larger and the scale length enables it be on octave lower than a guitar or cello. Thus, Bass..

Cellos only have four strings, like violins, violas, cellos and double bass.

But to play cello, you can use a beginner cello for 3-400 bucks, but you will also need professional lessons to get the the bowing techniques down and the fingering techinques down properly.

Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night often wrote his melodies and solos using a cello.

A cello is nothing like a Bass

Are you serious? Apart from both being stringed instruments, guitars and cellos have virtually nothing in common!

Neither a bass nor a cello is "strummed". A cello is a completely "normal" instrument.

There are good various Cellos from Stentor Co. Maybe a Fretless, or Acoustic /Electric Bass would be better. The Epiphone Jack Casady Bass has a low-impedance humbucker that gets those low bass overtones.

A cello is a cello...neither a guitar nor a bass guitar and usually played with a bow, occasionally plucked (pizzicato) but rarely, if ever strummed. It is played while set upright between the knees of a seated player, and would be extremely cumbersome if someone attempted to hold and play it like a guitar. It has four strings but tuning is different than standard tuning in a bass guitar and it would be more trouble than its worth to try to consistently try to tune the strings to the same pitch as a standardly tuned bass guitar. Oh yeah...cellos have no frets either, and good luck trying to put a capo on the neck because it wouldn't fit. There is no "bass cello", but there IS a bass viol (held and played similarly like a cello)

https://vdgsa.org/pgs/the_viol.html, and of the actual bass of the string family (sometimes called a doublebass, a contrabass). These aren't played like a guitar either. Both player and instrument are standing up (though a player can sit on a tall stool). Either way, this kind of bass is also usually played with a bow or plucked (even "slapped"), but not strummed and also lacks frets.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass

At least the standard EADG tuning is the same for the two very different bass instruments.

Even as a joke or novelty, trying to play a cello or a string bass like a guitar would be a musically limited, awkward and expensive way to stand out for like about a minute. You can get a fairly decent guitar or bass for $300, and a very fine guitar or bass if you shell out $2000. The price of a student quality--not an Amazon special TOY, starts at around $2000--not counting the bow that you don't plan to use. Plan to teach yourself how to play too, because no self-respecting guitar OR cello teacher will let you try to play an instrument in a way completely contrary to yhe way they were meant to be played.

Like a said... as a joke or novelty... not very interesting for more than a few deconds and you can find stuff like that on YouTube, along with even more idiots (imo)playing their guitars with a violin bow.

https://www.amazon.com/Crescent-Beginner-Cello-Sta...

If you get one of these fireplace starters, you can even buy stick on frets as well, to teally look like a complete twit.