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History Of The Bass Guitar Through 1940s
Long before the bass guitar was connected to the electricity and pumped through a 1,000-watt amplifier, it is called double bass. No, this is not the same thing that used to give their drummer exercising the calf muscles. The double bass is the largest and lowest pitched instruments used in most of the symphony orchestra. This is usually played with a bow, standing upright, and dates back to the 16th century. It's tuned much the same way as the standard 4-string electric bass, with notes E, A, D, and G.
Year 1935 was a musician from Seattle, Washington, named Paul Tutmarc, developed the first electric bass guitar. He called it "electronic bass fiddle" and sell them through the catalog company, Audiovox. It's built solid, four strings, and has a 30 ½ "long scale, making it easier to carry, tone, and learn to play. However, a solid bodied guitar, it does not have an on-board electronics to allow manipulation of sound. It's just equipped with single-coil magnetic pickup and voice modification largely controlled through the amplifier. In fact these modifications are submitted to the tone, volume and tone. Tutmarc Unfortunately for the music a certain age most of the orchestra and big band so that the electric bass have never collected a lot of interest .
At the end of the 1940s, electric bass have started to get some interest in blues and jazz clubs in the south. It's easy transportability and easy tuning make comfortable for the musicians travel from nightclub to nightclub. This also provided for a louder voice. This allows certain bassists of the era to adjust the volume with a 6-string electric co. In 1951, Leo Fender, with the help of his friend and long-time employee, George Fullerton, Fender Precision Bass develop, often referred to as "P-Bass." Precision is designed as a partner to a Fender Telecaster electric guitar. This is the first mass-produced and bass guitar, until today, is one of the best-selling electric Basses of all time.
