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2. Höfner 500/1 - Wikipedia

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   The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass (sometimes nicknamed the "Beatle Bass") is a model of electric bass manufactured by Höfner under several varieties. It was introduced in 1955 and gained fame during the 1960s as the primary bass used by Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

3. Paul McCartney reunited with famous bass stolen 50 years ago ...

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   McCartney bought the violin-shaped, hollow-bodied Höfner 500/1 guitar in Hamburg, Germany, for 30 pounds (around $37) in 1961 when the young Beatles were on one of their lengthy and arduous ...

4. Paul McCartney and his stolen bass come together after more ...

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   Beatles rocker Paul McCartney reunited with his stolen violin-shaped Höfner bass guitar, a year after the Lost Bass Project made it their mission to retrieve it.

5. How Paul McCartney was reunited with the bass guitar that ...

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   A statement posted to McCartney’s official website said: “Following the launch of last year's Lost Bass project, Paul’s 1961 Hofner 500/1 bass guitar, which was stolen in 1972, has been ...

6. Höfner - Wikipedia

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   A Höfner 500/1 "violin bass" similar to the one used by Paul McCartney. A German luthier, Karl Höfner (1864–1955), founded the Höfner company in the town of Schönbach in Austria-Hungary (now Luby in the Czech Republic) in 1887.

7. List of the Beatles' instruments - Wikipedia

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   Höfner 500/1. McCartney custom-ordered a left-handed Höfner model 500/1 "violin" bass during one of the group's early residences in Hamburg. This model, with two pickups very close to the neck and almost touching each other, was replaced in 1962 by a 1963 model, whose pickups were spaced much farther apart, in a more conventional manner.

8. Got back! Paul McCartney's stolen bass is found and returned ...

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   Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year search by the manufacturer of the instrument that was aided by a husband-and-wife team of journalists helped reunite ...

9. Fuzz bass - Wikipedia

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   Paul McCartney, in one of the earliest uses of the fuzz bass, played the guitar on the 1965 Beatles song "Think for Yourself" from their album Rubber Soul. Bill Wyman in one of the earliest uses of this type of guitar played with a growling fuzz bass tone on the 1966 Rolling Stones songs " Under My Thumb ," " Flight 505 " and " Think " from ...