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Miniatura bajo Hofner
Este bajo ha sido una seña de identidad de Paul McCartney durante toda su carrera, desde The Beatles hasta la actualidad.
Miniature under Hofner
This bass has been a hallmark of Paul McCartney throughout his career, from The Beatles to the present day.
(Translation through Google Translate)
Muchas gracias por vuestras visitas y comentarios.
Un cordial saludo.
Thank you very much for your visits and comments.
Best regards.
Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass Guitar
Almost the Paul McCartney's one
But his one was a left-handed ;-)
Photo taken during a concert @ Raindogs House in Savona, Italy 22/10/2021
a video by me taken during this concert:
"Home Of The Blues" by Johnny Cash
(a fine country rock blues)
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This is the same kind of bass that Paul McCartney used in the Beatles.
Being played here by the bassist from the Shuffle Demons.
This is just one single shot (No focus stacking). The depth of field was about 10 cm so I put the focus on the g string just at the bridge. To reduce the reflections on the surface of the instrument I used a Nikon circular polarizing filter
An old Hofner Senator archtop guitar with wonderful patina and age which is waiting for some restoration and my attention. A spring project in the offing.
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Saw it, played it, couldn't resist it; my own Hofner Violin Bass. B is for Beatle Bass
Really it's just another Beatle tribute.
There is no denying the Beatles had a HUGE influence on modern music as we know it. I for one was inspired to pick up guitar because of them.
But an interesting note is that aside from Paul's Hofner bass, the rest of the instruments they played were all American made!
George's Gretsch guitars were made in New York. John's (and George's) Rickenbackers were made in California and Ringo's Ludwig drums were produced in Indiana... Ringo was so proud of his "Imported from America" drums that he had the Ludwig logo printed on the bass drum head (it didn't come from the factory that way) So there you have it. The British Invasion was played on American Instruments... Kinda cool huh? :)
The Beatles live at the Wimbledon Palais 14th December 1963. This was a show put on especially for the Southern Area Fan Club.
Paul McCartney with his Höfner Violin Bass & Reslo RB Ribbon Microphone,
George Harrison with his Gretsch,
John Lennon with his Rickenbacker & Reslo RB Ribbon Microphone and
Ringo Starr with his Ludwig drums.
..oh and a few VOX amps!
Photographer unknown.
www.paulmccartney.com/home.php
Some silent footage of The Beatles at this concert in the Reslo youtube playlist:
www.youtube.com/user/Reslosound?feature=mhee#p/c/2CFF5B21...
My cat Guapo chewed the end of Paul's Hofner Bass Guitar neck, the headstock of George's Guitar and one of Ringo's drum sticks. Ooops. Thanks Guys for posing for me here. See my cat Guapo here: www.flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/400926090/
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The Hofner bass is in position for a recording session on an upcoming album. A full discography streams via the profile links on all music platforms.
Yes, Sir Paul occasionally put down his Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass in favor of the Rickenbacker 4001S…
"Two-storey, gable-independent gable roof building with crest, ground floor sandstone masonry, upper floor and gable half-timbered, first half of the 17th century.
Baiersdorf is a town in the district of Erlangen-Höchstadt, in northern Bavaria, Germany.
The major part of Baiersdorf is idyllically situated on a terrace which preserves the town from being flooded by the close Regnitz river. It is located exactly between Erlangen (eight kilometers in the south) and Forchheim (eight kilometers in the north).
Neighbor cities are Forchheim, Poxdorf, Langensendelbach, Bubenreuth, Möhrendorf and Hausen.
Baiersdorf was first mentioned in 1062 AD and has been chartered since 1460.
As Baiersdorf is famous for farming and processing horseradish, the Meerrettich Museum for horseradish ("the spiciest museum of the world") is located in the old center of the town. A horseradish queen is even chosen every year on the third Saturday in September. The margrave Johann der Alchimist (1401–1464) started the cultivation of horseradish in the region.
Baiersdorf's Jewish cemetery attests to the fact that the town has been home to Jews since the 15th century. Among others the family of Joseph Seligman who emigrated to the United States and founded an international bank lived there.
Joseph's brother James who later followed him to the United States, is the grandfather of American art collector and socialite Peggy Guggenheim.
The district of Hagenau was founded in 1939 as a German Luftwaffe base. French prisoners of war lived there. After 1945, Hagenau was a home for refugees from the Sudetenland. Today it is a part of the town, and the Karl Höfner Corporation is located there, world famous for its guitars and bass guitars.
In July 2007, the town was flooded by torrential rain. Over 1000 homes were flooded, and the Bundesautobahn was temporarily closed to traffic.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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