Fender Telecaster Bass
The Telecaster Bass is an electric bass guitar model of the U.S. musical instrument manufacturer Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. The Telecaster Bass was first introduced in June 1968. He was Fender's first edition (English: Reissue ) of the first Fender Precision Bass, which was developed in 1951 by company founder Leo Fender.
History and construction of the instrument
The Telecaster Bass is a slightly enhanced remake of the 1951 published the first E- Bass by Fender model, the Precision Bass. The name of the Telecaster Bass is a reference to one of the most popular electric guitar models from Fender, 1950 Fender Telecaster presented. This has in common the Telecaster Bass a board - shaped flat body without ergonomic cut-outs, as it had the first version of the Precision Bass in 1951. Just like the electric guitar model Telecaster and the bass was offered for a short time in a colorful patterned Pink or Blue Paisley Body Finish, the end of the 1960s, especially the guitarist should address as designated psychedelic music styles. These instruments are sought-after collectibles today.
As of February 1972 produced the Fender Telecaster Bass with an attached with three screws to the body neck, instead of the usual four-fold screw the Precision Bass. Later, the electromagnetic pickup was in single coil design ( single coil ) of the model is replaced by a double coil in design ( humbuckers ), which was mounted directly to the base of the neck in the corpus. This pickup produced an extremely bass-heavy, slightly contoured tone that hardly took trailer outside of country music. One of the few musicians of other styles was Kenny Gradney, bassist of the band Little Feat, which, however, the sound improved by adding a second humbucker near the bridge. The popularity of this model suffered from an instrument neck with chunky cross section and the resulting from the use of ash wood for the body high weight, which was seldom less than five kilograms. Starting in 1977, the Telecaster Bass received a ridge in the style of the former Precision Bass with four saddles. In this model, the ridge the lower ends of the bass strings were of the instrument's top manufactures ( "top " ) are hooked into the web ( English: Top- loaded ) rather than, as before, passed by the back of the body made by this (English: string -through -body ). The production of the Fender Telecaster Bass was discontinued in September 1979.
The Telecaster Bass in the second version with a humbucker in the neck position has been launched by Fender subsidiary Squier again in 2007 under the name Squier Vintage Modified Precision Bass TB. This model differs from the Telecaster design an ergonomically tapered body ( " underarm support " ) as the model produced from 1955 the Precision Bass. The body is in this model from linden wood with a veneer made of ash wood.
Strong similarity with the first version of the Telecaster Bass ( 1968-71 ), the published in 2008 Squier Classic Vibe '50s Precision Bass. However, this model also has the underarm support of the later Precision bass (from 1955), and the body is made of basswood.
In 2011, Fender introduced as part of its China -made, affordable modern player series out a new edition of the humbucker - equipped Telecaster Bass, but the second has a humbucker near the bridge for a more contemporary, contoured sound.
Known users
- Mike Dirnt from the band Green Day
- Paul McGuigan, former bassist of the band Oasis
- Dusty Hill, bassist for ZZ Top
- Ron Wood, bassist Jeff Beck Group
- Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr.