𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗠𝗰𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗸 𝗛ö𝗳𝗻𝗲𝗿

Paul McCartney vindt het jammer dat het Duitse gitaarmerk Höfner failliet is gegaan. Op Instagram deelt de 83-jarige oud-Beatle een eerbetoon aan het bedrijf.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5545590/paul-mccartney-eert-failliet-duits-gitaarmerk-hofner

#PaulMcCartney #Höfner #failliet

#FotoVorschlag
'Saitenweise // String by string'

& schönes Schallloch // beautiful soundhole

#Music #Guitar #Höfner #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Photography #BlackAndWhitePhotography

It’s #NoTrebleNovember! Let’s get low!

Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass

We love a violin cutaway. We love a hybrid. A bass guitar neck on a violin body‽ Yes, please!

Many refer to this model as the “Beatle Bass.” As far as we can tell, most players who choose this particular bass fall into one of two categories: those who want to evoke the sound/look/vibe of Paul McCartney, and those who… literally are Sir Paul McCartney.

Look, it’s like a mini upright bass, that you hold like a bass guitar! Because of the c-bouts, you could even play it with a bow if you wanted to. We would think that would be popular in a variety of genres even for artists who do not care at all about the Beatles, but what do we know?

The bass has a 30 inch “short scale” neck with a zero fret. Frets are made of metal and the nut is typically made of something else (traditionally bone, or plastic on cheaper instruments, but nowadays might be all sorts of materials like graphite or wood or some kind of composite, or even a different type of metal). Because of this, open notes will have a slightly different tonality than fretted notes. A zero fret allows even the open strings to contact a fret for more consistency. As a bonus, the cut of the nut slots is less critical. Unfortunately, for that reason, zero frets became commonly associated with cheap, low quality instruments and never really caught on. Ironically, these days you can easily distinguish a real German-made Hofner from a licensed import model because the cheaper ones DON’T have the zero fret. Here the nut itself looks to be made of white-black-white binding material.

It has two pickups spaced as far apart as they can possibly get, with a volume control for each and three incredibly unintuitive switches. “TREBLE ON” turns the neck pickup off and adds in a low-cut filter. “BASS ON” is the opposite, turning the bridge pickup off and adding a high-cut filter. Both on at the same time results in no sound at all. Finally, a “SOLO/RHYTHM” switch is simply a pre-set volume cut.

We once saw a Hofner factory tour video and were astounded by the low tech way they did things. For some operations, we felt that if we were building ONE (1) instrument in our garage, then that is probably how we would do it, but we would assume that in a production factory they would have machines or jigs or something to make the process more efficient and repeatable. At other times, they were just fully freehand going for it in a way that, even in our garage for personal use only, we would still try to come up with a more reliable way to do it than THAT ffs.

The good news is, these are truly hand crafted instruments. The bad news is, if you are buying one, you better hope that the luthier was not having an off day. Then again, presumably part of the premium price is that they make sure not to sell any crappy ones.

You usually see these models in a sunburst finish, less commonly black, occasionally other finishes, and sporting a pearloid pickguard and control plate. This particular specimen has no pickguard, a black control plate and is painted [checks notes] purple.

#PurpleGuitarPhursday #Hofner

Great Scott! 🎸

“ #Gibson has recruited the services of the investigative journalists who found #PaulMcCartney ’s missing #Höfner Violin bass guitar, as the search continues for the lost ES-345 that #MichaelJFox played as #MartyMcFly in #BackToTheFuture.”

https://www.musicradar.com/guitars/gibson-mark-agnesi-issues-lost-to-the-future-marty-mcfly-update-lost-bass-project-on-the-case

🌈💾 "Garden of Possibilities" with osc()_peterson and hpunq for the visual !

The vibe is a chill mix between elements synthesized in #strudel and a few samples with groovy textures and glitchy sounds. For the first time in my life, I recorded the bass and kept the sample to reconstruct the bass line in code. 🎸✨

=> https://youtu.be/rGFSx5u44yw
code => https://strudel.cc/?VOPpXCLS9Nb1

coucou 😎 @superdirtspatz and @hpunq

#livecoding #strudel #basshouse #hofner #chillvibes #electronicmusic #fm #ambiance #oiseau #chillax #sunra #violinbass #aepyceros