3. Types and models of electric basses

We will now take a look at the vast world of electric bass lutherie, trying the neophyte an introduction to the main models and types.
Of course, one cannot avoid starting from Leo Fender’s creations that we can rightly consider the father of the electric bass. His basses have influenced the market so much that they are still imitated, after more than half a century, and constitute the standard for the construction of an electric bass. Very often, both affordable basses and high-quality ones adhere with some variations to the fundamental Fender models.

Fender Precision (1951)

Fender Precision (1957)

Fender Jazz (1960)

Music Man StingRay (1976)

G&L (1980)

Rickenbacker 4001 (1961)

Gibson EB-0 (1959) e EB-3 (1961)

Gibson Thunderbird IV (1963)

Alta Liuteria

Non solo legno: Modulus Graphite

Steinberger, la paletta non c’è più!

Bassi a 5 e 6 corde

Manico avvitato, incollato o neck-through body?

Asia Bass

Bassi firmati

Non solo solid body

Bassi Fretless

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