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In Part 6, we assemble the hardware—mounting the bridge, tuning machines, and installing the strings. The bass guitar is ...

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Not very impressed. I have a platform of foot pedals, going back to ’79, and they work. Traded up for a Line6 last year, but no real advantage there, either.

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Oteil Burbridge, Dead & Company bassist and former Birmingham resident, has a bass inspired by Grateful Dead star Jerry Garcia's "Wolf" guitar.

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Paul McCartney playing a Höfner violin bass guitar on Salisbury Plain in England during the filming of “Help” in May 1965. It is similar to the one that went missing.

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