Models

Audiovox Model 736 Bass Fiddle

Early solid-body electric bass guitar

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.

Gibson EB-0

Bass guitar

Electric bass · United States

A short-scale electric bass introduced in 1959 that soon adopted the slim, double-horned SG body shape. A single large humbucker mounted near the neck gives it a deep, round, bass-heavy tone.