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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.
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 ...
The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar but with a longer neck and scale length and most usually four strings. This is a partial list of Wikipedia articles about companies (past and present) under which electric bass guitars have been sold.
Carl Thompson also finished a five-string bass tuned BEADG in May 1976. And California builder Alembic delivered their first 5-string with a low B to Jimmy Johnson in 1976. In the late 1980s, luthier Michael Tobias made the first bass with more than six single-course strings, a custom-order seven-string bass for bassist Garry Goodman, tuned ...
The tuning is E2-A2-D3-G3, which is the same as the lower four strings on a guitar. Some short-scale piccolo basses may be strung with conventional guitar strings. However, in general a piccolo bass will require special string sets to cater for the longer scale length, and larger ball ends to cope with the larger drilled holes in a bass bridge.
After guitar maker Carl Thompson made a first, arguably non-satisfying attempt to create such an instrument in 1974, Ken Smith built the first entirely usable electric contrabass guitar in 1982. This was again at the request of bassist Anthony Jackson , who later asked Vinnie Fodera and Joey Lauricella of Fodera Guitars to build several ...
Carl “Chucky” Thompson, the producer, composer and member of the Bad Boy label’s stable of “Hitmen” responsible for smashes by artists like the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige, has ...
Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio, The Damned Things) uses Badass II bridges on many of his Fender Precision and Jazz Basses. Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) used a Badass II on his Modulus Basses. C.J. Ramone on his Fender Dee Dee Ramone Precision Basses. Les Claypool on his Carl Thompson's Maple Piccolo Bass.