

We don't make it a practice of selling instruments that need additional work, but with vintage gear we like to retain as much of the instrument's original integrity as possible, giving the buyer the choice whether or not to have the work done. We also note that this thing could probably use a refret at some point in the future. However, our techs here have given it a fresh setup and made sure that it plays to the best of its potential.
#Fender musicmaster bass full
In the spirit of full disclosure, the neck has a bit of a hump and kickup starting at the body, so it gets pretty splatty up past the 12th fret.
#Fender musicmaster bass plus
50 plus years of use tends to yield a few drops, dings and scratches. This bass shows some obvious playwear, unsurprising given its age. Alder body, maple neck (0.831"-0.983"), rosewood fretboard (7.25" radius), 1.591" nut width, even the original single coil pickup. List your Fender Musicmaster Bass 2-Channel 12-Watt 1x12' Bass Combo 1970 - 1980 today to get it in front of thousands of eyes, quickly and easily.
#Fender musicmaster bass serial number
The serial number is in the mid 500.000 range which should date it to around 1974 or so. But now these short scale babies have taken on a. Vintage 1974 Fender Musicmaster Bass Guitar with Case SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE LARGE PHOTOS Up for bids is a vintage Fender Musicmaster Bass guitar. The Musicmaster started as a stripped down version of the Mustang. The bass has a single pickup with volume and tone controls. Fender Musicmaster Bass Olympic White 1970. The color may have changed, but all the original specs are still there. Heres an always fun to play vintage Fender Musicmaster Bass, famous for their short-scale thump. This particular one was made in 1970, and its original Olympic White finish has aged absolutely beautifully over the years. But now these short scale babies have taken on a history of their own. This Fender Musicmaster Bass with its short 30 scale and punchy single coil sounding pickup is in very good original condition. It features a short 30 in (762 mm) scale. As with its six-string counterpart, which was a stripped-down version of the Fender Mustang, the Musicmaster Bass is a simpler version of the Mustang Bass. It was beautiful.The Musicmaster started as a stripped down version of the Mustang. The Fender Musicmaster Bass is a model of electric bass guitar, produced by Fender between 19. I told him to shut his face and just play it. He laughed thinking it was some crappy fender solid state. I took this in to a tech to get it serviced. Keep it at 10, but then change your picking dynamic a little and that natural tube compression happens and you get a cleaner tone at a good volume. If you're not too embarassed to play power chords, try it. Turning up the volume past that starts to give you the good ol' American style overdrive. Low wattage tube amps rock because you can squeeze the good juice out of them without blowing the doors off your house! Even in spite of that, when I practice in the music room I set up in my house, I can't turn it up past 4 otherwise my ears start to hurt.

That's what I love about tube amps, they follow your dynamics! A super nice clean tone with the ability to get some nice clipping if you dig in a bit. Out of a small collection of silver face Fender amps the Musicmaster Bass. Musicians such as David Byrne and Liz Phair used a Fender Musicmaster. Too little power, the tone really wasnt right for bass, and the speaker was. A Musicmaster Bass model was also put on the market. It was the first 3/4 scale student-model guitar Fender produced. Recapped and serviced, and optimised for guitar, a perfect studio amp. The Fender Musicmaster is a solid body electric guitar produced by Fender. This is where I keep mine most of the time. 5-10W valve amp two 6V6GTs into a 12 speaker. Volume at 4 it sounds superb! The tone warms up a lot more than sitting at 3. Fender Musicmaster Bass Model Solid Body Electric Bass Guitar (1972), made in Fullerton, California, serial 315812, Sonic Blue finish, alder body. Nice and clean with some brightness on top and a little rolloff on the low end. The amp starts sounding good at 3 on the volume and just a *tick* below three on the tone.
