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In 1937, Kay began to produce a 3/4 size upright bass, which is widely believed to be their Concert or C-1 bass. Like their guitar manufacturing, the basses were hand crafted by skilled craftsmen using special ordered machinery.
The prominent school of thought present at the time was that “the only way to play bass was right handed” May played on a modified upright bass (nicknamed Coltrane), [4] with the fingerboard modified to have an even curvature and no ridge under the E-string. These modifications are suspected to have aided the idiodexterity of his playstyle.
An upright bass was the standard bass instrument in traditional country western music. While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/ b eɪ s /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar , but with a longer neck and scale length .
Axcelerator Series Axcelerator (made in USA 1994–1998) Axcelerator AX (made in USA 1995–1998) Axcelerator F (made in USA 1994) Cropper Classic (made in USA)
Eston acoustic bass guitar with no electric pickup, fretless but with fretlike markers, made in Italy in the 1980s. The Bassoguitar built by the Regal Musical Instrument Company was likely the first mass-produced acoustic bass to make use of a guitar-like body. [1] This was an upright instrument, too big to play in a transverse position.
It has been observed by Branford Marsalis that Braud was the first to utilize the walking bass style, that has been a mainstay in modern jazz, as opposed to the 'two-beat' pattern the tuba plays in the New Orleans style. His vigorous melodic bass playing, alternately plucking, slapping, and bowing, was an important feature of the early ...
The first "King Mortone" double bass appeared in 1934, when H. N. White decided to make a string bass instrument with the same care and attention as was put into making a brass bass instrument. The string bass's fronts were made from the finest straight-grain spruce with very close grain quality, while the rest of the instrument was made of ...