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Fender Precision Bass

Index Fender Precision Bass

The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. [1]

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  1. 93 relations: Alder, Alnico, April Kae, Badass (guitar bridges), Bass guitar, Big band, Bill Black, Bolt-on neck, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, California, Carol Kaye, Celluloid, Chicago (band), Coldplay, Corona, California, Donald "Duck" Dunn, DownBeat, Duff McKagan, Dusty Springfield, Eagles (band), Ebony, Elvis Presley, Emory Gordy Jr., Equalization (audio), Fanny (band), Fender (company), Fender American Deluxe Series, Fender Custom Shop, Fender Jaguar Bass, Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Precision Bass Lyte, Fender Precision Bass Plus, Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster, Fender Telecaster Bass, Fever 333, Fraxinus, Green Day, Guitar World, Guns N' Roses, Guy Berryman, Humbucker, Inlay (guitar), Iron Maiden, James Jamerson, John Cale, John Lodge (musician), Lace Sensor, Leo Fender, Leonard Feather, ... Expand index (43 more) »

  2. Fender electric bass guitars
  3. Musical instruments invented in the 1950s

Alder

Alders are trees that compose the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae.

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Alnico

Alnico is a family of iron alloys which, in addition to iron are composed primarily of aluminium (Al), nickel (Ni), and cobalt (Co), hence the acronym al-ni-co.

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April Kae

April Kae is an American bass guitar player, singer-songwriter, producer, model, social media content creator, and current member of FEVER 333.

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Badass (guitar bridges)

Badass was first trademarked by Leo Quan, a manufacturer of bridges for guitars and basses.

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Bass guitar

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

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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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Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s were an American instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Carol Kaye

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

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Celluloid

Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997, consisting of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer and percussionist Will Champion, and manager Phil Harvey.

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Corona, California

Corona (Spanish for "Crown") is a city in northwestern Riverside County, California, United States.

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Donald "Duck" Dunn

Donald "Duck" Dunn (November 24, 1941 – May 13, 2012) was an American bass guitarist, session musician, record producer, and songwriter.

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DownBeat

(styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Duff McKagan

Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician.

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Dusty Springfield

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), better known by her stage name Dusty Springfield, was an English singer.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Ebony

Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.

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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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Emory Gordy Jr.

Emory Lee Gordy Jr. (born December 25, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter and music producer.

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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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Fanny (band)

Fanny was an American rock band, active in the early to mid 1970s.

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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 American Deluxe Series

The Fender American Deluxe Series was a line of electric guitars and basses introduced by Fender in 1995 and discontinued in 2016.

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Fender Custom Shop

The Fender Custom Shop is a division of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, housed within its headquarters complex in Corona, Riverside County, California.

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Fender Jaguar Bass

The Fender Jaguar Bass is an electric bass guitar currently manufactured in Mexico by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Jaguar Bass are Fender electric bass guitars.

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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. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Jazz Bass are Fender electric bass guitars.

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Fender Precision Bass Lyte

The Fender Precision Bass Lyte is a fretted model of electric bass manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Precision Bass Lyte are Fender electric bass guitars.

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Fender Precision Bass Plus

The Precision Bass Plus is an electric bass made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and designed by George Blanda in 1989. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Precision Bass Plus are Fender electric bass guitars.

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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. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Stratocaster are musical instruments invented in the 1950s.

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Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele, is an electric guitar produced by Fender. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Telecaster are musical instruments invented in the 1950s.

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Fender Telecaster Bass

The Fender Telecaster Bass (also referred as the Tele Bass) is an electric bass introduced in 1968 by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Fender Precision Bass and Fender Telecaster Bass are Fender electric bass guitars.

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Fever 333

Fever 333 (or the Fever 333) is an American rock band formed in Inglewood, California, in July 2017.

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Fraxinus

Fraxinus, commonly called ash, is a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae, and comprises 45–65 species of usually medium-to-large trees, most of which are deciduous trees, although some subtropical species are evergreen trees.

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Green Day

Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990.

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Guitar World

Guitar World is a monthly music magazine for guitarists – and fans of guitar-based music and trends – that has been published since July 1980.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.

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Guy Berryman

Guy Rupert Berryman (born 12 April 1978) is a Scottish musician, songwriter, producer, businessman and designer.

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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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Inlay (guitar)

Inlay on guitars or similar fretted instruments are decorative materials set into the wooden surface of the instrument using standard inlay techniques.

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.

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James Jamerson

James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) was an American bass player.

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John Cale

John Davies Cale (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground.

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John Lodge (musician)

John Charles Lodge (born 20 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as bass guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the rock band the Moody Blues.

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Lace Sensor

The Lace Sensor is a guitar pickup designed by Don Lace and manufactured by AGI (Actodyne General International) since 1985.

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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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Leonard Feather

Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.

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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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Mains hum

Mains hum, electric hum, cycle hum, or power line hum is a sound associated with alternating current which is twice the frequency of the mains electricity.

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Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.

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Mike Dirnt

Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972), better known by his stage name Mike Dirnt, is an American rock musician who is the co-founder, bassist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of Green Day.

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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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Motown

Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group.

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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is a group of American session musicians based in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals.

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Music Man StingRay

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

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Norbert Putnam

Norbert Auvin Putnam (born August 10, 1942) is an American musician, studio owner and record producer who was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.

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Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey, January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer.

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Pau ferro

Pau ferro is a common name for several trees and may refer to.

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Peter Cetera

Peter Paul Cetera (born September 13, 1944) is a retired American musician best known for being a frontman, vocalist, and bassist for the American rock band Chicago from 1967 until his departure in 1985.

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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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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Pino Palladino

Giuseppe Henry "Pino" Palladino (born 17 October 1957) is a Welsh musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Poco (band)

Poco was an American country rock band originally formed in 1968 after the demise of Buffalo Springfield.

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Populus

Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Randy Meisner

Randall Herman Meisner (March 8, 1946 – July 26, 2023) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and founding member of the Eagles.

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Ricky Nelson

Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American musician and actor.

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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.

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Rosewood

Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours.

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Sans-serif

In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

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Schaller GmbH

Schaller GmbH is a German manufacturer of musical instrument hardware, based in Postbauer-Heng near Nuremberg, Bavaria, which designs and produces guitar tuners, bridges, tremolos, strap locks and other guitar accessories.

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Seth Lover

Seth E. Lover (January 1, 1910, in Kalamazoo, Michigan – January 31, 1997, in Garden Grove, California) was a designer of amplifiers and musical instrument electronics and effects.

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Seymour Duncan

Seymour Duncan is an American company best known for manufacturing guitar and bass pickups.

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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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Solid body

Sound sample of solid-body electric guitar. A solid-body musical instrument is a string instrument such as a guitar, bass or violin built without its normal sound box and relying on an electromagnetic pickup system to directly detect the vibrations of the strings; these instruments are usually plugged into an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to be heard.

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Squier

Squier is an American brand of electric guitars owned by Fender.

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Squier '51

The Squier '51 is an electric guitar made by Squier, a brand of Fender.

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Steve Harris (musician)

Stephen Percy Harris (born 12 March 1956) is an English musician, best known as the bassist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, primary songwriter and founder/leader of heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.

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The Blue Moon Boys

The Blue Moon Boys were an American rock and roll band that was formed by Elvis Presley, lead guitarist Scotty Moore and double bass player Bill Black.

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The Nashville A-Team

The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.

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The Police

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1964.

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The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of American session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for a great number of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits.

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Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.

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Tommy Cogbill

Thomas Clark Cogbill (April 8, 1932 – December 7, 1982) was an American bassist, guitarist and record producer known for his work in R&B, soul and country music.

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Tony Franklin (musician)

Anthony James Franklin (born 2 April 1962) is an English rock musician, best known for his work on the fretless bass guitar with Roy Harper, The Firm, Jimmy Page, Paul Rodgers, John Sykes' Blue Murder, David Gilmour, Kate Bush, Whitesnake, Lou Gramm, Gary Hoey and most recently with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

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Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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See also

Fender electric bass guitars

Musical instruments invented in the 1950s

References

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

Also known as Fender '51 Precision Bass, Fender 51 p bass, Fender Mike Dirnt Precision Bass, Fender P-Bass, Fender Precision, Fender p bass, P Bass, P-Bass, Precision Bass, The Fender Precision Bass.

, Lionel Hampton, Mains hum, Maple, Melody Maker, Mike Dirnt, Monk Montgomery, Motown, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Music Man StingRay, Neil Diamond, Norbert Putnam, Patty Loveless, Pau ferro, Peter Cetera, Pickup (music technology), Pink Floyd, Pino Palladino, Poco (band), Populus, Randy Meisner, Ricky Nelson, Roger Waters, Rosewood, Sans-serif, Schaller GmbH, Seth Lover, Seymour Duncan, Single coil guitar pickup, Solid body, Squier, Squier '51, Steve Harris (musician), Sting (musician), The Blue Moon Boys, The Nashville A-Team, The Police, The Velvet Underground, The Wrecking Crew (music), Tilia americana, Tommy Cogbill, Tony Franklin (musician), Wes Montgomery, Willie Nelson.