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Fender Precision Bass
First electric bass guitar
Designed 1950
Commercially introduced 1951
Revised 1957
Production life 1951 to date
History records Leo Fender as the inventor of the Broadcaster and Stratocaster, but generally omits his masterstroke: the electric bass.
While many inventors have laid claim to the concept of the electric guitar, Leo Fender's claim to the electric bass is beyond dispute. In one move he rendered the old fashioned upright bass-what he termed 'the doghouse' -obsolete, and changed forever the sound of popular music. Even more impressively, Fender's first rendition of the electric bass hardly differs from models still rolling off the production line 40 years later.
The original Precision, a simple slab of ash with a bolt-on maple neck, seems unprepossessing; original examples have acquired none of the mystique of a vintage Stratocaster or Les Paul. But his plain wooden creation paved the way for the Strat's radical double cutaway construction, and was far further removed from its acoustic antecedents than was the Les Paul from its cello-bodied forebears.
To date, Fender Precision and Jazz Bass models are produced in different versions.