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2. Carl Thompson (luthier) - Wikipedia

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   Carl Thompson (born February 5 1939) is a luthier and musician specializing in the construction of high-quality custom bass guitars.He is based in Brooklyn, New York.. Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, to a large musical family, Thompson moved to New York City in 1967 to pursue a career as a jazz guitarist.

3. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

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   Bass guitar strings are composed of a core and winding. The core is a wire which runs through the center of the string and is generally made of steel, nickel, or an alloy. [9] The winding is an additional wire wrapped around the core. Bass guitar strings vary by the material and cross-sectional shape of the winding.

4. Michael Tobias Design - Wikipedia

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   Michael Tobias Design (MTD) is a Kingston, New York–based manufacturer of electric bass guitars founded by luthier Michael Tobias in 1994. Tobias, along with two part-time helpers, currently builds about 10 electric basses per month at his shop in Woodstock, New York .

5. Ned Steinberger - Wikipedia

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   A Steinberger electric bass guitar. Ned Steinberger (b.Princeton, New Jersey, 1948) is an American creator of innovative musical instruments.He is most notable for his design of guitars and basses without a traditional headstock, which are called Steinberger instruments.

6. Tobias (bass guitar company) - Wikipedia

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   In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094. Michael Tobias left the company in 1992 to found Michael Tobias Design which produces a line of hand-made basses similar in spirit to the older Tobias basses. Basses below the serial ...

7. Bass guitar tuning - Wikipedia

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   Tuning machines (with spiral metal worm gears) are mounted on the back of the headstock on the bass guitar neck. The standard design for the electric bass guitar has four strings, tuned E, A, D and G, in fourths such that the open highest string, G, is an eleventh (an octave and a fourth) below middle C, making the tuning of all four strings the same as that of the double bass (E 1 –A 1 –D ...