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 Vintage Guitar - Fender Precision Bass Guitar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fender Precision - The lowdown on the bass
The Fender precision is probably the most famous, most used and potentially the most respected bass guitar design of all time.
Although the story of the electric bass guitar goes back at least 20 or 30 years before the advent of the Fender precision, this was the first instrument to gain any commercial sucess, and despite modifications, exists in a very similar form today.
www.vintageguitars.org.uk /Precision.php   (1284 words)

  
 Fender Precision Bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fender Precision Bass, known as "P-bass" for short, is the first model of the electric bass designed by Clarence Leonidas Fender and brought to market in 1951.
Although the Precision Bass was first presented some 15 years after the original solid body, fretted, guitar-style electric bass produced by the Audiovox Manufacturing Company in Seattle, Washington, the Precision Bass enjoys the status of being the first mass-produced and commercially successful electric bass.
Overall, the electric bass has allowed driving rhythms while stile still outlining harmonic structures and is essential to the evolution from jump blues and swing to rhythm and blues and rock music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fender_Precision_Bass   (872 words)

  
 Fender Sting Signature Precision Bass Guitar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was in pristine condition and includes Fender '51 Precision Bass Reissue chrome pickup and bridge covers.
In keeping with it's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Precision Bass in 1951, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) will honor the musical accomplishments of two artists and their very distictive instruments with Signature Models.
For fans of Sting, one of the world's most visible bass playing front men, the image of his 1953 P-Bass is one that transcends a musical career of more than 25 years - from The Police to very illustrious solo career.
www.jimlawrence.net /BASSES/stingbass.html   (231 words)

  
 Information and photos of vintage Fender Jazz bass and Precision Bass guitars.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The fingerboard was tapered and narrower than the Precision bass and the body was Alder rather than Ash.
This bass is work in all the right places and is a great looking vintage Fender bass.
This is an olympic white example of a precision bass.
www.rocknrollvintage.com /information-on-fender-bass-guitars.htm   (379 words)

  
 Fender Precision Bass - Wikipedia
Leo Fender hatte 1951 die Idee, einen Bass zu produzieren, der nicht nur einfacher als ein Kontrabass zu transportieren sein sollte, sondern auch einfacher zu spielen.
Fender legte seine Länge auf 34 Zoll (864 mm) fest.
Der „neue“ Precision Bass wurde über die Zeit mehr und mehr verändert, das Grunddesign und das was ihn ausmacht blieb jedoch erhalten.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fender_Precision_Bass   (631 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fender Standard Precision Bass at Epinions.com
I bought a couple other cheaper basses that looked cool but that sounded wimpy and trebly compared to my Fender P. My P bass served me well for a couple years, until I unfortunately fell onto hard times and hocked it...
I got tired of borrowing friend's basses to record with, so I decided it was time to purchase a four-string muthasucker.
This bass is fun and easy to play, with it's slim,long neck and light body, and is not a bad bass, especially for 300 clams.
www.epinions.com /content_33235897988   (503 words)

  
 Fender Bass Guitars
Fender Precision and Jazz basses have been the corner stone for most popular music since the '50s.
Fender bass guitars have been made in American as well as Mexico and in China.
The Fender Precision Bass is the standard mexican made 4-string PBass.
www.kellyindustries.com /guitars/fender_bass.html   (270 words)

  
 2000 Fender Precision Bass Special   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Although the Fender Precision Bass is widely considered one of the key components to "the" rock bass tone, my ears now prefer the sound of Fender Jazz Bass-style pickups.
Fender's recent Deluxe series P-Bass Special and Hot Rod P-Bass were close, but the American Hot-Rod P-Bass had a P-Bass-width neck.
But as luck(?) would have it, in late June a different store had a "new" (shopworn) Fender Precision Bass Special in stock, with exactly the preferred options (candy apple red body/rosewood fingerboard; actually, I would have much preferred a natural finish ash body, but the P-Bass Special is not available in that finish).
home.earthlink.net /~marcelroy/gear/2kpbass/2kpbass.html   (373 words)

  
 Fender AM DLX Precision Bass Guitar - Music 123   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The new instruments in the American Deluxe Series are the epitome of classic Fender craftsmanship, combining the most innovative of today's technologies with the finest materials available to create a beautiful, timeless series of guitars that musicians will cherish for years to come.
To faithfully capture the characteristic sounds that Fender guitars are known for, each instrument in the new American Deluxe Series comes equipped with different configurations of the newly designed Fender Samarium Cobalt Noiseless (SCN) pickups.
Combined with Fender's acclaimed S-1 switching, which comes equipped on every guitar in the American Deluxe Series, the new SCN pickups bring a near endless array of superior tones and pickup configurations that even further defines that "Fender sound" like never before.
www.music123.com /Fender-AM-DLX-Precision-Bass-i126794.music   (379 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Fender Bass: Books: Klaus Blasquiz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Fender Bass, created 40 years ago by the inventive genius of Leo Fender, still remains today as the definitive electric bass.
The Fender Bass tells the detailed story of the electric bass through the different models and their improvements, from their origins to the present form.
In 1954 when the famous Stratocaster appeared with all its refinements, the Precision Bass Began to undergo some *intermediate* modifications such as a contoured body, a two section nickel plated bridge, a white single layer pickguard and the switch from slotted head screws to Philips head screw.
www.amazon.com /Fender-Bass-Klaus-Blasquiz/dp/079350757X   (1477 words)

  
 Scotty Moore - Fender Precision Bass
In April of 1957 Bill Black acquired a Fender Precision Bass.
Bill with Precision Bass and Bassman amp Los Angeles, CA 1957
The 55/56 Fender Precision Bass has a 34" scale length and featured a two tone sunburst finish on a solid Ash or Alder body, 20 fret Maple neck, 1 single coil pickup, Nickel/Chrome plated hardware with a Volume and Tone control.
www.scottymoore.net /55PBass.html   (228 words)

  
 Musicman Stingray bass Guitar, Fender Precision Bass Guitar, Dr Pickup
1975 Fender Precision bass renovation (0601) by DNG Paris Before and after shots - this guitar had been left 20 years in the case with strings at full tension so the neck was not intonating right.
It also had the plastic from the Fender guitar strap melt into the back of the guitar.
Philip Bottomline's Musicman Bass in front of a 100 Watt Hi watt amplifier and 4*70 watt Fane Speakers.
www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/4089/bass.html   (526 words)

  
 Fender Precision Bass: Harmony Central User Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This Precision bass was equally good for both studio and live performances.
I bought this bass in 1969 from a store in Charing Cross Road, London, it was perfect from day 1 and after many years on the road it never let me down.
I've been playing for 27 years and have the '63 Fender, a 1979 Mighty Mite bass in Koa with brass and gold hardware and P/J EMG pickups (1986 passives), and a 1955 Sting Reissue bass, which will shortly be getting the same pickup he uses in his--Basslines stacked single coil humbucker.
www.harmony-central.com /Bass/Data4/Fender/Precision-Bass-01.html   (4993 words)

  
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Fender created the Precision Bass more than five decades ago with an elegantly enduring design for an innovative instrument that transformed popular music.
The Precision Bass guitar features a comfort-contoured body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, single split-coil hum-canceling pickup and knurled chrome American Precision Bass knobs.
The Precision Bass is a great choice for beginners and established bass players.
www.dv247.com /invt/34765   (220 words)

  
 Guitar Stop: Fender Standard Precision Bass Mexico
Fender invented the Electric Bass in 1951 in response to requests from musicians for a louder, easier-to-handle bass.
This new instrument was named the Precision Bass.
Unlike its predecessor-- the acoustic stand-up bass, the P-Bass® had frets, which allowed bassists to play with precision.
www.guitarstop.com /Fender/spb.htm   (107 words)

  
 Gruhn Guitars Fender Precision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Leo Fender's fame may rest on the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, but the most influential, the most revolutionary Fender instrument was the Precision Bass.
Before the P-Bass was introduced in 1951, few had even imagined a fretted electric solidbody bass guitar.
Now the electric bass is the established standard in most forms of popular music.
www.gruhn.com /features/pbass58/BF2485.html   (134 words)

  
 Fender Standard Precision Bass (with Gig Bag)
Unlike its predecessor -- the acoustic stand-up bass, the P-Bass¬ had frets, which allowed bassists to play with precision.
Only thing about it is on mine the bridge is a bit messed up, mostly due to my friend slappin' and poppin' the strings...it's a precision it's not made for that.
price and precision, "who'da thunk it?" for soemthin with a down to earth cost, and an awesome sound like that, i'm sure it's the best value out there.
www.8notes.com /gear/FEN136100.asp   (319 words)

  
 eBay — Fender precision bass, Fender precision bass guitar and fender standard precision bass items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fender Bass 51 P Precision Reissue w/ Tweed Case OHSC
Fender Precision Bass Guitar Midnight Blue 2000 and Case
Fender Mike Dirnt '51 P Bass Precision 2006 Model, Exlt
instruments.listings.ebay.com /Fender_Precision_W0QQsacatZ64401QQsoc...   (701 words)

  
 Fender American Precision Bass
The American made Fender Precision is probably the most popular bass to date.
Ash wood is used on the transparent Sunset Orange basses.
Fender calls it the S-1 switch and it's located on the volume knob.
www.kellyindustries.com /guitars/fender_bass_precision_american.html   (344 words)

  
 Fender Bass Guitars
The American Series Precision Bass guitar that everyone knows and loves is better than ever! The new S-1™ switching system makes this an extremely versatile bass that gives players an array of cool new sounds, and it comes in some fantastic new colors and finishes!
This bass was loaned by Fender to a big name band for a recent tour, you might even have seen it on stage. They won't tell us who it was, but who cares anyway. This is one great sounding cool looking bass guitar.
The backbone of this bass, though, is its incomparable American Vintage ’62 Precision Bass split single-coil pickup,; paired with our S-1™ switching system to produce a nearly endless range of Precision and Jazz Bass® tones. The 60th Anniversary Precision Bass—a classic design, sound and feel.
www.oasismusicalinstruments.ltd.uk /acatalog/Fender_Bass_Guitars.html   (470 words)

  
 Fender Custom Shop, Custom Shop Teambuilt and Masterbuilt Basses at Bass Emporium
Fender’s iconic instruments, such as the Telecaster®, Stratocaster®, Precision Bass® and Jazz Bass® guitars, are known the world over as the instruments that started the rock revolution, and they continue to be highly prized among today’s hottest guitarists and collectors alike.
The Masterbuilt model is a bass that will not be found on the regular "price list" and most stores will not have these in stock.
A Master built bass is made by one person instead of a crew, and the builder is responsible for that instrument from the day he gets the order till he ships it.
www.bassemporium.com /bass_emporium.php?Fender   (731 words)

  
 Fender American Series Precision Bass | Sweetwater.com
Creation and refinement of these basses have been generated from decades of musician's feedback.
From the feel of the neck to the tone of the pickups, the result is a better sounding, better playing instrument.
Now this instrument includes Fender's groundbreaking S-1 Switching system that allows you to switch pickup configurations in an instant.
www.sweetwater.com /store/detail/PBassAMMBLK   (422 words)

  
 eBay - bass fender precision, Guitar, Weird Stuff items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fender ® NEW Standard Precision Bass ® 60th Anniversary
Fender American Precision Bass Guitar With Case Black
Fender American Precision Bass Guitar With Case 706
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=bass+fender+precision&...   (530 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Fender Precision Bass Mini Guitar Replica: Toys & Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As one of their most illustrious achievements, the Fender Precision Bass guitar allowed bassists to be heard more clearly than ever before.
For the first time, traditional upright bass players could finger notes easily and precisely, thanks to the P Bass® guitar's maple neck and fretted fingerboard.
Fender Precision Bass — Great selection of bass guitars.
www.amazon.com /Fender-Precision-Bass-Guitar-Replica/dp/B000B8VDJI   (579 words)

  
 Fender Standard Precision Bass Guitar - richtonemusic.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Fender Standard Series guitars and basses are the bedrock of the Fender family of guitars.
Manufactured at Fender's state-of-the-art facilities in Ensenada, Mexico, Standard models represent the best value in classically designed instrument.
The Standard Fender is also known as the Mexican Fender due to being manufactured in Fender's facility in Mexico.
www.richtonemusic.co.uk /fender-bass-guitars/fender-standard-p-bass.htm   (188 words)

  
 Buy Fender© Standard Precision Electric Bass Guitar online at Musician's Friend
The Fender Precision is precisely the bass for you.
Nov 12, 2006 - This is bass has the quality of a much more expensive guitar and wont cost you an arm and a leg.
Has that fantastic fender tone that is second to none and a high treble sound that perfectly suits my punk three piece.
musiciansfriend.com /product/Fender-Standard-Precision-Bass?sku=516041   (599 words)

  
 Fender Precision Bass - Shopping.com
This is a gold anodized, 1-ply, 10-hole pickguard for the '57 American Vintage Precision Bass....
The P-Bass JR bass guitar is a smaller version of Fender's Standard...
The Fender American Vintage '62 Precision Bass is as classic...
www.shopping.com /xGS-Fender_Precision_Bass   (790 words)

  
 Buy Fender American Precision Bass online at Musician's Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Fender American Precision Bass is known for its toughness, tone, and playability!
The American Precision Bass features S-1 switching to change pickup coils from series to parallel to give a brighter, snappier Fender Jazz Bass tone.
I originally was going to get the Geddy Lee jazz bass, but when i played this bass, i right than changed my mind.
www.musiciansfriend.com /product/Fender-American-Precision-Bass?sku=515118&src=3SOSWXXB   (636 words)

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