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Originally Posted by htieksppircs  Basses with 8, 12, 24 strings. Just play Bass O.K. Fender nailed it in about 1962. |
You would love my buddy Garry. He can play the damm thing. Proof it's the indian, not the arrow...
Garry Goodman
I also love a low B bass. It's an extention of technology. Original bass fiddle makers would have used a lower string if the body would have amplified it. They were interested in lower registers for compositions. This is why you find 16' stops on larger pipe organs. Electric bass manufacturers use the low B because they now have speakers that can reproduce it, that was not possible in the 1950's.
Fender introduced the 5 string bass in the later 1960's. It was small, short scaled but did not have a low B string.
Jim Williams
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