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 ...

The Höfner violin bass that accompanied ... me more than 10 seconds to know it was the right one,” he said. Mr. Wass pointed to the left-handed guitar’s distinctive parts and color.

Paul McCartney's original bass guitar, which the legendary musician ... The 81-year-old singer-songwriter was reunited with the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass after its manufacturer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A guitar expert and two journalists have ... McCartney bought the left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass for around £30 — about £550 ($585) today — in Hamburg in 1961, during The Beatles ...