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Re advertised with reduced price. Selling at a reduced price for limited period. Fender Musicmaster Bass 1971 This is the rarer first issue of the Musicmaster bass. This is the baby of the Fender range of this era and has a 30” scale. This early version has the smaller logo and model name with the distinctive hooked R. The tuners are original with the tulip shaped keys, later models had Schaller types. The neck is nice and easy to play, it has a lovely dark rosewood board and 19 frets. Truss rod works as it ought to and the action is low and comfortable. It also intonates very well for a two saddle bridge shorty. The bass had been modded years before I bought it and had been routed for a reversed Precision bass pickup rather than the original rather weedy sounding Strat pickup. I swapped the pickup for a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder as the fitted pickup was in poor condition. I also removed the ‘choke’ from the original wiring circuit as this was probably used to make the original Strat pickup sound darker. I will include the choke with the bass. The pots and Bakelite knobs are all original. The scratchplate is one I made. It’s rather rough but does the job. I have the original one but it has been modded to accommodate the P pickup and the original pickup cavity patched. I’ll include this of course. The finish is original with lots of dings, touch ups, crazing and darker patches where stickers have been removed. It has had a long life as a gigged bass. It looks great because it’s been played and loved. I’ve personally used this for many gigs over the last year. It sounds punchy and has a surprisingly versatile tonal range. It’s light at around 3.7kgs and very easy to play. I’m selling because I’m back to playing long scales. I don’t want trades sorry and it’s UK only. I can post at the buyer’s expense and/or arrangement. I’ve dropped the price for a limited time as I’ve got an eye on something else. Modifications aside this is a bargain price for a vintage ready to gig Fender.

I have zero idea how I would ever use this or even how to set it up to use it. Thankfully I have just brought a Fender neck, a Squier neck, a power bank and am just about to pull the trigger on an Allen and Heath mixer otherwise I may have had a brain fart and thought "what a wonderful thing to buy and learn about" It looks fabulous and suspect you could do anything with it upto playing Battlefield 6 and running a AI system. Wonderful and GLWTS.

Amazing.

Loads of questions about this so thanks for your interest so far I am happy to take offers on it btw