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Bass guitar

Index Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. [1]

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  1. 107 relations: A (musical note), Acoustic bass guitar, Acoustic guitar, Alembic Inc, Alloy, Anthony Jackson (musician), Audio feedback, Bass amplifier, Bass effects, Bass guitar tuning, Bass Musician, Bass Player (magazine), Big band, Bill Black, Bolt-on neck, Burns London, Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer, Carl Thompson (luthier), Carol Kaye, Course (music), Cream (band), D (musical note), Danelectro, DI unit, Double bass, E (musical note), Electric guitar, Electric upright bass, Elvis Presley, Equalization (audio), Fender (company), Fender Bass VI, Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Jazzmaster, Fender Mustang Bass, Fender Precision Bass, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, Forrest White, Fret, Fretless bass, G (musical note), George William Fullerton, Gibson Brands, Gibson EB-0, Gibson EB-2, Gibson EB-3, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG, Gibson Thunderbird, ... Expand index (57 more) »

  2. American musical instruments
  3. Bass guitars
  4. Blues instruments
  5. Contrabass instruments
  6. Electric bass guitars
  7. Folk music instruments
  8. Jazz instruments
  9. Rhythm section
  10. Rock music instruments

A (musical note)

A or La is the sixth note and the tenth semitone of the fixed-do solfège.

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Acoustic bass guitar

The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than, a steel-string acoustic guitar. Bass guitar and acoustic bass guitar are bass (sound), bass guitars and string instruments.

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Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. Bass guitar and acoustic guitar are rhythm section.

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Alembic Inc

Alembic is an American manufacturer of high-end electric basses, guitars and preamps.

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Alloy

An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.

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Anthony Jackson (musician)

Anthony Jackson (born June 23, 1952) is an American bassist.

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Audio feedback

Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback) is a positive feedback situation that may occur when an acoustic path exists between an audio output (for example, a loudspeaker) and its audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup).

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Bass amplifier

A bass amplifier (also abbreviated to bass amp) is a musical instrument electronic device that uses electrical power to make lower-pitched instruments such as the bass guitar or double bass loud enough to be heard by the performers and audience. Bass guitar and bass amplifier are bass (sound), blues instruments, Contrabass instruments, electric bass guitars, folk music instruments, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.

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Bass effects

Bass effects are electronic effects units that are designed for use with an electric bass and a bass amplifier, or for an upright bass and a bass amp or PA system. Bass guitar and bass effects are bass (sound) and electric bass guitars.

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Bass guitar tuning

Each bass guitar tuning assigns pitches to the strings of an electric bass. Bass guitar and bass guitar tuning are bass guitars and electric bass guitars.

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Bass Musician

Bass Musician is a monthly, free online publication published in Vancouver, Washington, for bass musicians and industry professionals.

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Bass Player (magazine)

Bass Player is a magazine for bassists.

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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Bill Black

William Patton Black Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll.

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Bolt-on neck

Bolt-on neck is a method of guitar (or similar stringed instrument) construction that involves joining a guitar neck and body using screws or bolts, as opposed to glue and joinery as with set-in neck joints.

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Burns London

Burns Guitars London is an English manufacturer of electric guitars and bass guitars, founded by Alice Louise Farrell (1908–1993) and James Ormston (Jim) Burns (1925–1998) in 1959.

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Carbon-fiber reinforced polymer

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon composite, or just carbon, are extremely strong and light fiber-reinforced plastics that contain carbon fibers.

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Carl Thompson (luthier)

Carl Thompson (born February 5 1939) is a luthier and musician specializing in the construction of high-quality custom bass guitars.

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Carol Kaye

Carol Kaye (née Smith; born March 24, 1935) is an American musician.

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Course (music)

A course, on a stringed musical instrument, is either one string or two or more adjacent strings that are closely spaced relative to the other strings, and typically played as a single string. Bass guitar and course (music) are string instruments.

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Cream (band)

Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966.

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D (musical note)

D is a musical note a whole tone above C, and is known as Re within the fixed-Do solfege system.

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Danelectro

Danelectro is a brand of musical instruments and accessories that was founded in Red Bank, New Jersey, in 1947.

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DI unit

A DI unit (direct input or direct inject) is an electronic device typically used in recording studios and in sound reinforcement systems to connect a high output impedance unbalanced output signal to a low-impedance, microphone level, balanced input, usually via an XLR connector and XLR cable.

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Double bass

The double bass, also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched chordophone in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions such as the octobass). Bass guitar and double bass are bass (sound), blues instruments, Contrabass instruments, folk music instruments, jazz instruments and rhythm section.

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E (musical note)

E is the third note and the fifth semitone of the C major scale, and mi in fixed-do solfège.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. Bass guitar and electric guitar are American inventions, American musical instruments, blues instruments, jazz instruments, rhythm section and rock music instruments.

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Electric upright bass

The electric upright bass (EUB) is an instrument that can perform the musical function of a double bass.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Equalization (audio)

Equalization, or simply EQ, in sound recording and reproduction is the process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal.

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Fender (company)

The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers.

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Fender Bass VI

The Fender Bass VI, originally known as the Fender VI, is a six-string electric bass guitar made by Fender.

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Fender Jazz Bass

The Fender Jazz Bass (often shortened to "J-Bass") is the second model of electric bass created by Leo Fender.

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Fender Jazzmaster

The Fender Jazzmaster is an electric guitar designed as a more expensive sibling of the Fender Stratocaster.

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Fender Mustang Bass

The Fender Mustang Bass is a shortscale electric bass guitar model produced by Fender and Squier.

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Fender Precision Bass

The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Fender Stratocaster

The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.

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Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele, is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Bass guitar and Fender Telecaster are American inventions.

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Forrest White

Forrest Fred White (21 May 1920 in West Virginia - 22 November 1994 in Banning, California) was an American musical instruments industry executive, best known for his association with Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Fret

A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument.

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Fretless bass

A fretless bass is an electric bass guitar whose neck is smooth like traditional string instruments, and like the acoustic upright double bass. Bass guitar and fretless bass are bass guitars.

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G (musical note)

G, also called Sol or So, is the fifth note of the fixed-do solfège starting on C. It is the fifth note and the eighth semitone of the solfège.

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George William Fullerton

George William Fullerton (March 7, 1923 – July 4, 2009) was a longtime associate of Leo Fender and, along with Fender and Dale Hyatt, a co-founder of G&L Musical Instruments.

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Gibson Brands

Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Gibson EB-0

The Gibson EB-0 is a bass guitar that was introduced by Gibson in 1959.

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Gibson EB-2

The Gibson EB-2 is an electric bass guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation from 1958 to 1972, with a hiatus from 1962 to 1963.

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Gibson EB-3

The Gibson EB-3 is an electric bass guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Gibson Les Paul

The Gibson Les Paul is a solid body electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952.

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Gibson SG

The Gibson SG is a solid-body electric guitar model introduced by Gibson in 1961, following on from the 1952 Gibson Les Paul.

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Gibson Thunderbird

The Gibson Thunderbird is an electric bass guitar made by Gibson and Epiphone.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. Bass guitar and guitar are blues instruments, folk music instruments, guitars, rhythm section and string instruments.

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Guyatone

Guyatone (Japanese: or) is a Japanese guitar brand and manufacturing company that produces electric guitars, guitar amplifiers, and effect pedals.

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Hagström

Hagström is a musical instrument manufacturer in Älvdalen, Dalecarlia, Sweden.

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Hal Leonard

Hal Leonard LLC (formerly Hal Leonard Corporation) is an American music publishing and distribution company founded in Winona, Minnesota, by Harold "Hal" Edstrom, his brother, Everett "Leonard" Edstrom, and fellow musician Roger Busdicker.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Höfner

Karl Höfner GmbH & Co.

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Höfner 500/1

The Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass (sometimes nicknamed the "Beatle Bass" or "Cavern Bass") is a model of electric bass manufactured by Höfner under several varieties. Bass guitar and Höfner 500/1 are electric bass guitars.

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Humbucker

A humbucker, humbucking pickup, or double coil, is a guitar pickup that uses two wire coils to cancel out noisy interference from coil pickups.

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Infobase

Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets.

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Instrument amplifier

An instrument amplifier is an electronic device that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into a larger electronic signal to feed to a loudspeaker. Bass guitar and instrument amplifier are blues instruments and rock music instruments.

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Intonation (music)

In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument.

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Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician.

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Jack Casady

John William Casady (born April 13, 1944) is an American bass guitarist, best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.

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Joe Osborn

Joseph Osborn (August 28, 1937 – December 14, 2018: Billboard. Retrieved January 8, 2019.) was an American bass guitar player known for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles with the Wrecking Crew and in Nashville with the A-Team of studio musicians during the 1960s through the 1980s.

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Kay Musical Instrument Company

Kay Musical Instrument Company (often referred to simply as Kay) is an American musical instrument manufacturer established in 1931 by namesake Henry "Kay" Kuhrmeyer and based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Leo Fender

Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader.

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List of bass guitar manufacturers

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar but with a longer neck and scale length and most usually four strings.

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List of bass guitarists

The following is a list of notable electric bass guitar players.

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Louis Jordan

Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Monk Montgomery

William Howard "Monk" Montgomery (October 10, 1921 – May 20, 1982) was an American jazz bassist.

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Music Man (company)

Music Man is an American guitar and bass guitar manufacturer.

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Music Man StingRay

Music Man StingRay is an electric bass by Music Man, introduced in 1976.

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Neck (music)

The neck is the part of certain string instruments that projects from the main body and is the base of the fingerboard, where the fingers are placed to stop the strings at different pitches.

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Neck-through-body construction

Neck-through-body (commonly neck-thru or neck-through) is a method of electric guitar construction that combines the instrument's neck and core of its body into a single unit.

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Octave

In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Paul Tutmarc

Paul Tutmarc (May 29, 1896 – September 25, 1972) was an American musician and musical instrument inventor.

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Phil Lesh

Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.

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Pickup (music technology)

A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.

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Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument.

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Plucked string instrument

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings.

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Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Preamplifier

A preamplifier, also known as a preamp, is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.

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Premier Guitar

Premier Guitar is a media company devoted to guitarists.

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Rickenbacker

Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Scale length (string instruments)

The scale length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can produce at a given tension.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.

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Set-in neck

A set-in neck (often shortened to set neck) is the traditional form of joining the neck of a stringed instrument with its body.

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Shifty Henry

John Willie "Shifty" Henry (4 October 1921 – 30 November 1958) was an American musician, double bass and bass guitar player, and blues songwriter.

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Single coil guitar pickup

A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass.

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Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands.

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String (music)

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Bass guitar and string (music) are string instruments.

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String instrument

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Bass guitar and string instrument are rhythm section and string instruments.

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Sweetwater Sound

Sweetwater is an American musical instrument retailer.

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Teisco

Teisco was a Japanese musical instrument manufacturing company from 1948 until 1967, when the brand "Teisco" was acquired by Kawai (河合楽器製作所; Kawai Gakki Seisakusho).

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The Art Farmer Septet

The Art Farmer Septet is an album by trumpeter Art Farmer, featuring performances recorded in 1953 and 1954, arranged by Quincy Jones and Gigi Gryce, and released by Prestige Records in 1956.

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Tympany Five

Tympany Five was a successful and influential American rhythm and blues and jazz dance band founded by Louis Jordan in 1938.

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Ukulele

The ukulele (from ukulele, approximately), also called a uke, is a member of the lute family of instruments of Portuguese origin and popularized in Hawaii. Bass guitar and ukulele are American musical instruments and guitars.

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Viking Press

Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House.

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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar is an American magazine that focuses on vintage and classic guitars, amplifiers, effects, and related equipment, as well as notable guitarists from all genres and eras.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed. Bass guitar and viola are folk music instruments.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Bass guitar and violin are folk music instruments.

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Wal (bass)

Wal is a brand of electric bass guitar manufactured by Electric Wood Ltd, first in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and later in Fetcham, Surrey, England. Bass guitar and Wal (bass) are bass guitars.

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Yamaha Corporation

is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

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See also

American musical instruments

Bass guitars

Blues instruments

Contrabass instruments

Electric bass guitars

Folk music instruments

Jazz instruments

Rhythm section

Rock music instruments

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_guitar

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