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Electric bass was first invented in the 30s by Paul Tutmarc, then it was mass-produced in the 50’s by Leo Fender and the rest was history.  They were initially made to do what the upright bass do in a smaller, more portable package.  It was first made with frets on so that it’s easier to play, what’s also why it was called the precision bass..   Throughout the years, there were many variation and improvements over all kinds of combinations and designs.   There was first the Violin bass by Hofner in German, then until recent year, another German luthier Marleaux had build a semi-hollow electric bass with upright bass in mind. 

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Here comes something you don’t get to see so often ..  Jimmy’s exhibition piece for NAMM 2008, the 1600 Limited Edition 

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2 years after the release of the original short scale Stingray , I'm still digging this serious little guy ...    to the point I had to buy another brandnew one ... 

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 Here comes the 2nd project with my WKBB doing some more cover during the lockdown .  We are lucky to team up with many great musicians all over the places on this doing what we love .  Please check out and support our works by sharing and subscribe to our youtube channel.  

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Here comes another shootout between the 2 popular flatwound strings for basses out there .  again ..    Being a long time fan for both that constantly switch back and forth between the 2 .   Here comes the new addition to the game, the low tension flats by La Bella!  here's their answer to TI after all these years. 

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After Rob’s MB2 (34”), then Mouse 30 (30”) , I’m lucky enough to try out this flagship model he offers.  Where Rob says the Deep4/5 has the most convincing acoustic tone if cost is not an issue.  And man ..    I just can’t agree more. 

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I’m a long term fan of short scale bass.  It’s smaller, lighter and the shorter scale length just fits my asian hand better.   My first bass was an early 2000 Ampeg AMB1 bass, bought the bass when I was like 17 years old with my first part-time salary.   As my bass adventure goes throughout the years, knowing how a bass should sounded like, it became more difficult to find a short scale that delivers the same tonal quality as their full size brothers.    And while I’m more financially stable compare to my teenager days, and how much more precise people are building musical instruments now.  We’re in a very great era where there are some fun short scale basses that actually play and sound great.   It was first the Stingray short scale, and now I have a chance to test drive this Fender Mustang bass.

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Our first gig of the 2021 with my weekeeeeee brothers and sisters and a new bass.  Thanks again to Fairchild Radio Toronto for having us being the house band of the evening.   Playing music live with friend are so much fun.  

 

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For a short period of time in the early 70, Fender came up with a bass that has alder body(60s) plus an all maple neck(70s) later on they started building basses with ash body, but these ‘transition’ basses had earned their reputation in bass history, the most famous one is probably Geddy Lee’s 72 jazz bass, the tuxedo.
Named after a New York bassist playing the same bass. RA is Jimmy Coppolo’s take of this special ones, and it happened to be the best of both world.

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First project of the year from WKBB.   We managed to do our parts from home during the lockdown .   We miss seeing each others, but would still like to continue to do what we love.