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Audiovox Manufacturing Company
American guitar building company
Audiovox was an American instrument maker founded in Seattle by Paul Tutmarc, an early builder of electric guitars and one of the first to produce a fretted electric bass guitar.
Models
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Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle
A solid-body, fretted electric bass guitar developed by Paul Tutmarc and marketed by his Audiovox Manufacturing Company in Seattle from around 1936. With four strings, a roughly 30.5-inch scale, and a single pickup, it is widely regarded as the first electric bass guitar, predating the Fender Precision Bass by about fifteen years.
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Audiovox Model 936 Amplifier
United States
A valve amplifier made by Paul Tutmarc's Audiovox Manufacturing Company in 1930s Seattle, designed to partner the Model 736 electric bass. Together the 736 and 936 formed one of the earliest amplified electric bass rigs.
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Representative model
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Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle
A solid-body, fretted electric bass guitar developed by Paul Tutmarc and marketed by his Audiovox Manufacturing Company in Seattle from around 1936. With four strings, a roughly 30.5-inch scale, and a single pickup, it is widely regarded as the first electric bass guitar, predating the Fender Precision Bass by about fifteen years.