HOFNER 5000/1 DELUXE ELECTRIC VIOLIN BASS MADE IN GERMANY

[napman]

Well, Nimit, I'm a Johnny come lately again

I saw your thread few days ago and recalled that I when I was at Guitar Center at my city there was one of this type USED hanging on the wall.

I'm pretty sure it's not exactly the same model but as far as I recalled it looked very close. I thought about going there and take some picture and post it here but so far haven't done that

I might go today to settle my wondering. You see, I didn't really interested in this Paul Mc bass type after I've tried it when I was a bass player. 2 of my closed bass player friends used it and another bass player that I knew used it too. It didn't suit my style of playing I guess!! I opted to have Fender Jazz instead.

But my Fender J got stolen (as some of you may knew) and I was looking forward to get Gibson bass since I was in Thailand and even when I got to USA but couldn't find the one that I really wanted. So I bought another USED Gibson and used it for a while before sold it to my musician friend and he still has it today

Here was my dream Gibson (EB-1) that I never had a chance to see/touch in real life even in USA, and it was played by only this guy (Felix Pappalardi)



And it was also VIOLIN bass;



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