HenningDK

My bass life started in 1967 after having played the guitar joining my first band dyring autumn 1962. My first guitar there was a Harmony H49 Stratotone, seen in the mirror it is the best guitar I ever owned, later on I had Gibson Les Paul Professional and Fender Strat, and japanese Les Paul clones, but I still miss my H49, which I was so stupid to sell ! The first bass I owned was a Burns Bison vith a “violin shaped” peghead and three pickups, it also had a hand rest over the strings, a Pre- Shadows model. A brief periode I played a Danelectro Longhorn short scale. Later on I again went on the guitar and bass vice versa. I joined a professional band and did it for a living though 6-1/2 years, and through this periode I found out the formula for fretting and made my own bass, the scale was 880 mm (Fender is 860 ), although I used a Jazz Bass as a sort of template. I found some rod magnets, made forms from pertinax and wound my own pickups. I used this bass for years, also occasionally for studio work. Later on I bought a Washburn, it had a more funky sound and was more suitable for a new band I joined late in ‘79 through ‘84. Joining a more jazzy trio, I decided going “headless” and found a secondhand Washburn Status Series 100, which I have until this day. Just to tell a little more guitar story : I also made my own guitar, a sort of Les Paul “clone”, neck from maple, fretboard from rosewood and body in laminated mahogany, scale 625mm. I used two japanese pickups, installed 4 conductor screened cable and made a switch panel with lots of possibilities, only volume control and no tone control. I had it destroyed on a job, the peghead broke off, and for the insurance fee I bought a Steinberger GM4T. From my 50 years bithday I changed to piano, a few years later I bought a Hammond M3 ! I’m now 75, still playing, but only for amusement.