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After the dissolve of Kay/Valco in 1968, the Engelhardt-Link Company bought the upright bass and cello lines at the asset auction in 1969, and continue to produce the same instrument lines until today. Manufactured in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Engelhardt basses and cellos are sturdy instruments, widely used by students and touring professionals.
As with the American Standard double basses also made by H. N. White, the King Mortone basses had a longer than usual 43 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch mensure (scale length), which was about 1 1/2 inches longer than most 3 ⁄ 4 size double basses. This makes them somewhat more difficult to play for some players, though it is a key component of the ...
Dyna-Bass Series (made in USA with design help from Tim Landers) 4 String (discontinued) ... Serial numbers correlate to shipping dates of US models only. 1978 to 1995.
1. Hagstrom used a 6 or 7digit serial number on production (1963–1983) electric guitar and bass models. 2. The first 3 digits of the serial number indicate the manufacturing Production Run number. The remainder of the number is the sequence number for that unit (guitar or bass) within the production run.
During the 1950s, some of the instruments leaving D'Angelico's shop had mixed features, such as an Excel-sized guitar with New Yorker features created for Johnny Smith, or D'Angelico necks custom fitted to bodies customers brought in. [15] Original D'Angelico guitars are identified by a serial number punched inside the bass f-hole—the serial ...
Basses made by U.S. Music Corporation used the same seven-digit formula continuing the 4-string serial number and dating. As with other Parker guitars, they offered both magnetic and piezoelectric pickups, with the ability to blend the two. The Fly Bass was discontinued in 2008 and Parker offered 4- and 5-string basses with the newer MaxxFly shape.
Jaco Pastorius Jazz Bass Fender [44] Jack Bruce: Jack Bruce #13-2324 Warwick [45] Jack Bruce Artist Series [46] Jack Bruce Signature [47] Jack Bruce Survivor #13-2586 [48] Jack Bruce Survivor #20-4177 [49] Jack Casady: Jack Casady Bass Epiphone [50] John Campbell: JC-4 ESP: Dark grey metallic satin [51] John DeServio: JD DeServio J-4 Schecter
The first serial number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978. [5] In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. The first Tobias bass under Gibson ownership bore the serial number 1094.