Models
5 models
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Hofner 500/1
Violin-style hollow-body electric bass family
Electric bass
The famous "violin bass," a hollow, violin-shaped electric bass made by the German maker Hofner. Lightweight and short-scaled with a warm, thumpy tone, it is inseparable from Paul McCartney, who has played one throughout his career.
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Höfner 500/2 Club Bass
Short-scale hollow-body electric bass
Electric bass
A short-scale hollow-body electric bass made by the German maker Höfner, a single-cutaway sibling of the famous 500/1 violin bass. Introduced in the late 1950s, the 500/2 Club Bass shares the violin bass's light hollow body and warm, thumpy short-scale tone and is associated with the early-1960s Beatles/Hamburg era. Höfner continues to offer Club Bass reissues.
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Fender Prophecy II Bass
Electric bass model
Electric bass
The Prophecy II is an electric bass that Fender sold in the early-to-mid 1990s, built in Japan under Fender's short-lived Heartfield line. It has a double-cutaway body, a bolt-on maple neck, active electronics, and a P/J pickup pairing, with a more modern, sculpted look than Fender's traditional basses.
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Music Man Sterling
Bass guitar model
Electric bass · United States
A slimmer sibling to the StingRay bass introduced in 1993 and named after Sterling Ball, with a smaller body and a narrower neck. It offers StingRay-style punch with added switching flexibility in a more compact package.
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Sandberg California V Series
Offset electric bass model line
Electric bass · Germany
The California V Series is Sandberg's offset bass family built around Precision-derived pickup layouts: VS (single split-coil), VM (split-coil + humbucker), VT (Jazz + Precision), and Central (single humbucker). It is bolt-on with a Canadian hard-rock maple neck, in 4-string (34 in) and 5-string (35 in) versions.