Guitar, bass

This entry catalogues a bass guitar in the collections of the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, recorded under the descriptive heading of a bass instrument of the guitar family. A bass guitar is normally a solid-bodied, four-string instrument with a long scale, fretted neck and magnetic pickups, designed to be amplified and to supply the low register in an ensemble; the electric bass appeared in the early 1950s and quickly displaced the double bass in most popular music. The museum record gives the instrument's type rather than a maker or model, so no production date or builder is stated on this page.

Guitar, bass

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