2009 Höfner H500/1-CT Contemporary Series Violin Bass
Stats
- List Price: $1,099
- Retail Price: $769
- Paid Price: $529
- 30" scale
- Rosewood fretboard
- 22 frets
- Maple-beech-maple set neck
- Neck width at nut 1 5/8"
- 4 individual machine heads
- Ebony bridge with movable metal saddles for perfect intonation and string spacing
- Brass trapeze tailpiece
- Selected German Spruce top
- Flamed maple back and sides
- 2 Hofner 511B 'Staple' humbucking pickups
- Control panel with boost and individual on and off switches and boost
- Nickel-plated hardware
- Floating celluloid pickguard, pearl designed
- Mother of pearl inlay dots
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“The contemporary version of the Violin Bass: the sustain block inside the body makes for modern, fulminant deep-resonating bass sounds.
“Original Höfner 'Staple-Top' pick-ups. In black (-BK) or antique brown sunburst (-SB).”
— Hofner.com
June 3, 2009
Beatle powers activate! Form of flatwound strings!
I just put this on order today, and the ETA is sometime tomorrow. File this one under “How To Blow Several Hundred Dollars Worth of Store Credit.”
June 21, 2009
I got to play this thing with a new set of flatwound strings on it for the first time today. It’s like buttah.
Last updated on June 24th, 2009 2:39:39 PM