The Höfner 500/1 violin bass made famous by Sir Paul McCartney, for example, has a 30-inch neck compared to the more usual 34-inch.

Beatles-y bass with a short scaleObviously aimed at a much younger player who can't yet handle the full 34-inch scale of most basses, or simply any of us who fancy trying something a little different, ...

However Gibson made bigger impact in 1958 with its EB-2 bass, a thinline semi-hollow bodied instrument with real f-holes and like the Electric Bass it initially had banjo-style tuners that projected ...

While the fretted electric bass fiddle was first developed in 1935, only four years after the electric guitar hit the stage, it wasn't until Les Fender released the Precision Bass in 1951 that the ...