Whatever happened to the Music Man Stingray Through Neck models?

[HeadlessBassist]

As the title says, whatever happened to the Music Man Stingray Through Neck models? I remember all the promotional stuff with Joe Dart etc, but never saw one for sale or can find a used one now. I guess they probably did the usual American maker tactics of pricing them crazily expensively above the standard range of Specials and no one bought them!

 

 

 

Edited Monday at 21:21 by HeadlessBassist

[Misdee]

I think they were discontinued before the Specials came along, maybe quite a while before. They always sounded really good to me in the  YT demos I saw. Never got to play one.

 

From memory, they weren't that much more expensive than a bolt on model. Certainly not enough for people to raise a fuss about at the time. They weren't in production for very long, probably because there wasn't much demand for a non-traditional Stingray. Players are fairly conservative, and so many have already got Stingrays anyway. 

 

For a company like EBMM volume of sales is always a big consideration because they have limited production capability so they need to put their resources into making stuff that is going to sell. That's why they can't keep making models that aren't selling very many.  With a limited range of models and options they can more accurately estimate what raw materials they will need and end up wasting less time and money.