The Beatles took Lovely Rita into Studio Two of Abbey Road on February 23rd, 1967 – McCartney’s faithful Höfner came along ...

Höfner bass expert Nick Wass has ... with his long lost Höfner 500/1 violin bass – an instrument that has been missing since 1969. The bass guitar was first purchased by McCartney during ...

After becoming the band’s bassist, Mr. McCartney desperately needed a bass guitar and bought the instrument in a music store in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. “I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway ...

LONDON — For decades, the fate of Paul McCartney’s bass guitar baffled the music world ... Wass is “absolutely the world’s expert on violin Höfner basses, and he’s the expert on ...

The bass guitar, featured on the band's early breakthrough smashes, including Love Me Do, She Loves You and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, disappeared in 1969 when McCartney's 1961 Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass ...

The prized instrument, stolen in 1972, has now been returned to the Beatle. From left, Ringo Starr (playing Ludwig drum kit) and Paul McCartney (playing a Hofner 500/1 violin bass guitar) of ...

McCartney bought the guitar, a left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. It was his primary instrument throughout the early years of The Beatles' runs at Hamburg's Top ...

Nick Wass, a semi-retired former marketing manager and electric guitar developer for Höfner who co-wrote the definitive book on the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, is spearheading the search.

Nick Wass, a semi-retired former marketing manager and electric guitar developer for Höfner who co-wrote the definitive book on the Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, is spearheading the search.

By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass — the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles.