From Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker to Imogen Heap, Regina Spector and Brian Eno, English guitarist and producer Leo Abrahams has ...

Allan Rohan Crite painted “Bass Violin Player” in 1941 and gave it ... if we don’t admit how complicated it can be, on the one hand, to embrace belonging and, on the other, to think for ...

In addition to the longtime musician’s instruments, Kolstein Music in Baldwin and its owner, Manny Alvarez, allegedly took on consignment a Mateo Goffriller bass violin worth $255,000 from a ...

so McCartney was forced to play with the strings backwards until he could afford his own left-handed bass. Eventually, McCartney bought a Höfner Violin bass guitar. While McCartney was initially ...

A short-scale bass shortens the neck by around 3.5 inches, which makes the guitar lighter and easier to handle, especially for those with shorter arms. The Höfner 500/1 violin bass made famous by ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Eighty-eight-year-old ...

a Höfner Violin Bass guitar, and the Wings logo. The design was officially approved by McCartney and marks the first time the iconic artist has appeared on an official UK coin. McCartney is one ...

It features his iconic "magic piano" (with a series of piano notes personally chosen by McCartney himself) and his Höfner violin bass guitar. The design also incorporates ... to create—including three ...

guitar, bass, drums, vocals, perhaps a keyboardist or a few horns thrown in. How about some violin? Sure, it's most often considered an orchestral instrument, and doesn't exactly emit the gritty ...

Despite his reservations, McCartney became attached to his iconic Hofner violin bass but always favoured ... from another in order to get a part right in the studio. For instance, when McCartney ...

Little more than a year after first picking up a bass guitar, Paul McCartney was playing the instrument ... After borrowing Sutcliffe’s right-handed Höfner 500/5 and playing it upside down for a few ...

and this is a guitar that fights back a little. You've got to dig right in and work it harder to get what you want. The flame-topped AmPro2, on the other hand, rocks 9-gauge strings, the action ...