why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
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Lewguitar
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
Exactly! :beerchug: The P-Bass was one of the first electric basses and frets meant alot of guitar players could double on bass...and play in tune!
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Exactly! :beerchug: The P-Bass was one of the first electric basses and frets meant alot of guitar players could double on bass...and play in tune!
Kamanda~SD
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
That;s awsome, good to know.
That;s awsome, good to know.
Sprinter
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
It wasn't one of the first, it was the first! George Fullerton's new book "George & Leo" has some interesting reading about the creation of the the Precision bass. George Fullerton, was Leo Fender's right hand man, from the early days of Fender, all the way up through their G&L days.
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Lewguitar said:
It wasn't one of the first, it was the first! George Fullerton's new book "George & Leo" has some interesting reading about the creation of the the Precision bass. George Fullerton, was Leo Fender's right hand man, from the early days of Fender, all the way up through their G&L days.
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Lewguitar
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
It's always safer to say "one of the first" though. Someone's always coming up with something even older than the "first" of most things! I do think of the P Bass as being the first electric bass with frets, too...I was just being careful.
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It's always safer to say "one of the first" though. Someone's always coming up with something even older than the "first" of most things! I do think of the P Bass as being the first electric bass with frets, too...I was just being careful.
Lew
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
Nowadays, it's almost ironic, because modern day basses have become serious precision instruments, in comparison to the cruder, simpler P-bass. Even still, it's the simplicity that draws hundreds of thousands of bassists to that basic design......much like a tele.
Nowadays, it's almost ironic, because modern day basses have become serious precision instruments, in comparison to the cruder, simpler P-bass. Even still, it's the simplicity that draws hundreds of thousands of bassists to that basic design......much like a tele.
octavedoctor
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Re: why is the precision bass called the precision bass?
Yes, 'cos a fretted instrument is, ironically, less precise in strict harmonic terms.
However as modern music is written to take advantage of the virtues of equal temperament, the point is moot as it could equally be argued that natural harmonic intervals are imprecise functions of the octave...
Kelsey said:
Yes, 'cos a fretted instrument is, ironically, less precise in strict harmonic terms.
However as modern music is written to take advantage of the virtues of equal temperament, the point is moot as it could equally be argued that natural harmonic intervals are imprecise functions of the octave...
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