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Baby Bass, introduced around 1962, was an electric upright bass with a full-size wooden neck and a cello-sized Uvex plastic body. The design was purchased from Zorko, re-engineered by Jess Oliver, and manufactured in a corner of Ampeg's Linden, New Jersey factory.
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The Fender Precision Bass Lyte is a fretted model of electric bass manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. This bass is characterized by its smaller modern C shape body, P-J pickup configuration, and light weight. The Precision Bass Lyte is equipped with 22 medium jumbo frets and has a scale length of 34 inches.
The Portaflex is a line of amplifiers for electric guitars and bass guitars created by Ampeg and originally designed by Jess Oliver. Portaflex referred to the amps’ portable reflex baffle system. The innovative ‘flip-top’ amplifier head design helped dissipate heat and reduce chassis and tube vibration during use, and inverted to store ...
Fender branded vacuum tube. The first "Fender" amplifiers were manufactured by Leo Fender and Doc Kauffman, [1] doing business as the K&F Manufacturing Corporation. [2] The amplifiers were housed in a steel case and most were finished in a "gray crinkle" finish that was baked in the Kauffman family oven.
The Fender Jazz Bass (often shortened to "J-Bass") is the second model of electric bass created by Leo Fender. It is distinct from the Precision Bass in that its tone is brighter and richer in the midrange and treble [ 1 ] with less emphasis on the fundamental frequency . [ 2 ]
The Precision Bass Plus is an electric bass made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and designed by George Blanda in 1989. It was one of the first American-made Fender basses to feature a 22-fret neck, requiring the company to slightly oversize the body shape and lengthen the cutaways, which distinctly changed the overall look of the instrument.
There is some variation in the scale length of an orchestral double bass, generally in the range 41.3–43.3 inches (1,050–1,100 mm).There are also smaller versions of this "full scale" double bass with the same scale length but with a smaller sound box, intended for other musical idioms.