Description

Irresistibly funky guitar-bodied and chambered bass having piezo and magnetic pickups with a pickup blend control!

This short scale monkey has a pretty amazing combination of sounds. It has a piezo pickup built into the brazilian rosewood bridge, and with the blend control (forward knob) all the way over to piezo, gives an interesting “edgy” sound. The piezo is, obviously, quite microphonic, so you can use this to get good effects depending on how you pick, pluck and damp.

Over at the other pickup, it does a passable impression of an upright bass with a nice muddy tone – think Gibson EB but at a lower output. But blend the two and you get some very nice combinations. “Muddy with a bit of edge” is actually great. Being a hollowed-out guitar body with a guitar fretboard makes this an ideal bass for a guitarist as the strings are at low tension and the scale is familiar. The piezo and sheer novelty factor make it great for bass players too.

Both neck and bridge are Brazilian rosewood, but being a non-adjustable bridge, the intonation is not too clever beyond about the 10th fret.

Condition-wise the bass is all original and clean, and comes in a non-original hard case.

Supro, Valcro, National, Airline pocket bass features

• Short scale (guitar sized) bass
• Black double cutaway chamfered edge and chambered body
• Kluson Deluxe tuners with white buttons
• 20 fret rosewood fingerboard
• Clear acrylic thumb and ringer rests
• White covered headstock with black Supro logo
• Serial number applied to back of headstock
• Height adjustable rosewood bridge with
• Piezo electric pickup built-in
• Magnetic pickup at neck position
• Blend control and volume control with white witch’s hat knobs
• Top-mounted input jack
• Trapeze tailpiece with ribbed decoration
• Non-original hard case