Close to 70 years after German instrument company Höfner started selling an electric bass that looked like a violin, the ...

They found the Höfner in an attic in Sussex, England. It was returned to McCartney and he played it on the final show of his ...

The company filed for insolvency following a particularly “difficult period, especially since the introduction of the US ...

The firm was founded in 1887, and designed the legendary Violin Bass that became Macca’s go-to in the Beatles and beyond ...

In early jazz bands, bassists played the bass fiddle, the tuba, or the bass saxophone. The typical bassist of the 1920s, if he played tuba or bass sax, was expected to double" on the bass fiddle as ...

While it's true to say Fender is an icon in the thunderous world of bass guitars, they are a whole lot more than that. Clarence Leonidas Fender not only set the template that all other future electric ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

A piece of Central Missouri musical history is now on display at the Missouri State Museum in the State Capitol. Lee Mace's famous bass fiddle now resides at the Missouri State Museum. For more than ...

Music has been a large part of Bruce Dundas' life, and now he is able to share his experience with a larger audience. The former Midlander published his first book, "Learn Bass Fiddle" earlier this ...

Double bass player Gary Karr has traveled the world with his huge musical instrument. In a piece for our occasional series "Musicians at Work," we hear about Karr's adventures and misadventures at ...