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Post subject: Fender Bass VI! Six Strings!
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:48 pm
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I saw an awesome bass. It's from the 60s. the Fender Bass VI has 6 strings and a whammy bar! It is awesome! Look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bass_VI

I demand Fender to start making them again!


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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:33 pm
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A Fender Custom Shop Bass VI N.O.S. sold by Musician's Friend. If $3G's seems too much, try to find a used one. I got lucky and found my '96 MIJ Bass VI for $750.00 at Sam Ash in Indy. It beat out a hollow body Gretsch Electromatic (w/DeArmond singles) for my available money, at the time, and I ended up saving about $100.00 over what I was planning to spend on the Gretsch (or a Hot Rod DeVille 410). While both the guitar and the amp were sweet, I could not pass up the chance at the Bass VI, when it was available.

In the coming future, I'll be be looking to work the Bass VI into my original arrangement of "Limbo Rock," which will feature my (MIM) Precision Bass as lead instrument. I'll have to try out both Tele and Strat, as well, since I'm currently undecided if I want just a twangin' guitar part (Tele), or a twang-bangin' guitar part (Strat). Then again, I may also have it wrong, to have the Precision Bass as lead...yeah...I need to use the Bass VI for lead. Other than that, I can see myself using my Bass VI within the context of original spy-fi tunes.

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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:41 pm
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A Fender Custom Shop Bass VI N.O.S. sold by Musician's Friend. If $3G's seems too much, try to find a used one. I got lucky and found my '96 MIJ Bass VI for $750.00 at Sam Ash in Indy. It beat out a hollow body Gretsch Electromatic (w/DeArmond singles) for my available money, at the time, and I ended up saving about $100.00 over what I was planning to spend on the Gretsch (or a Hot Rod DeVille 410). While both the guitar and the amp were sweet, I could not pass up the chance at the Bass VI, when it was available.

In the coming future, I'll be be looking to work the Bass VI into my original arrangement of "Limbo Rock," which will feature my (MIM) Precision Bass as lead instrument. I'll have to try out both Tele and Strat, as well, since I'm currently undecided if I want just a twangin' guitar part (Tele), or a twang-bangin' guitar part (Strat). Then again, I may also have it wrong, to have the Precision Bass as lead...yeah...I need to use the Bass VI for lead. Other than that, I can see myself using my Bass VI within the context of original spy-fi tunes.

Matt


send me a copy of that song when your done! i want to hear the P bass as a lead instrument!!!!


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Post subject: Re: Fender Bass VI! Six Strings!
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:28 pm
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GuitaristBassist11 wrote:
I saw an awesome bass. It's from the 60s. the Fender Bass VI has 6 strings and a whammy bar! It is awesome! Look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Bass_VI

I demand Fender to start making them again!


Just now hearing of the Bass VI, where ya been? :o


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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:25 am
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The VI is not only an interesting bass, it's an excellent, unique INSTRUMENT.

Impression is, Fender runs a production quantity of them every so often, but does not keep the VI in the catalogue. Cream City Music had a new CS one at a recent (spring '09) show in metro Chicago. Freaking magnificent. And yes, used ones go for 4 to 6 K$.

If the guitar can be likened to a violin, the electric bass to a bass, the VI is in this opinion, a cello, a tremendously capable instrument in its own class.

For about $400 you can get a 30" scale 6-string Danelectro and restring / set up /reintonate it to the same range as a Fender VI.

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Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:18 pm
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For about $400 you can get a 30" scale 6-string Danelectro and restring / set up /reintonate it to the same range as a Fender VI.

Gretsch also made a 6-string bass (I believe it was a Broadkaster variation) that could be strung/tuned similarly...as a true 6-string bass, or an octave below guitar like the Bass VI.

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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:17 pm
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The bass guy in my band uses a '64 Fender Bass VI--he bought it brand new in 1964 from Manny's Music in New Yawk.....it is amazing in it's range of tone.....it is indistinguishable from a regular bass at certain tone settings, then, you change things a bit, and you've got Glen Campbell's classic baritone sound on the solo for "Wichita Lineman"....the Bass VI can be heard on dozens of big hits from the 50s and 60s.....the first bass Jack Bruce used in Cream was a Bass VI.....I :twisted: would do a variety of unpleasant things to own one..... :twisted:


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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 5:23 am
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It's actually a barritone guitar. A six sting bass is tuned BEADGC, not EADGBE. A barritone guitar is tuned like a guitar. Danelectro makes a semi-cheap barri. Check it out

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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:37 am
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tommygunn wrote:
It's actually a barritone guitar. A six sting bass is tuned BEADGC, not EADGBE. A barritone guitar is tuned like a guitar. Danelectro makes a semi-cheap barri. Check it out


I am very familiar with baritone & Bass VI instruments, I own both. The differnce is the neck scale. A Baritone guitar is 28" and a Bass VI is 30 inched. While baritone strings will work on a Bass VI, you can't do it the other way around. There is no way you can string a 28" neck with bass VI strings.

I had an original Fender Bass VI in the 70's. I regret that I sold it back then. I've been trying to get hold of one for a few years now, but they are way too expensive for me. I have one from another manufacturer (Shecter Hellcat VI) It's good, but I would jump at the chance to get another Fender Bass VI if i could. Contrary to your statement, I tune the bass VI E to E.

I also own a DanElectro Baritone. This is the instrument that I tune B to B.


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If memory serves,the one at Cream City Music a couple months ago was a new CS in CS case, about $3000. Magnificent instrument.


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JSJH wrote:
If memory serves,the one at Cream City Music a couple months ago was a new CS in CS case, about $3000. Magnificent instrument.


It's way too much money for an istrument that I only use part time to record with. I'd like to see a MIM Bass VI at a reasonable price. I'd grab it in a heartbeat.


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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:30 am
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It's way too much money for an istrument that I only use part time to record with. I'd like to see a MIM Bass VI at a reasonable price. I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
They did that with their Jazzmasters and Jaguars, with the Classic Player's Specials. Even then, the pricing is a bit out of my range, espcially when Fender hiked the prices this year. With that, it seems that if Fender would do a similar MIM Electric VI, the price might end up somewhere between the $1,000-1,500.00 range, and still beyond the reach of a lot of players.

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Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:00 pm
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Surfabilly wrote:
speediejohn wrote:
It's way too much money for an istrument that I only use part time to record with. I'd like to see a MIM Bass VI at a reasonable price. I'd grab it in a heartbeat.
They did that with their Jazzmasters and Jaguars, with the Classic Player's Specials. Even then, the pricing is a bit out of my range, espcially when Fender hiked the prices this year. With that, it seems that if Fender would do a similar MIM Electric VI, the price might end up somewhere between the $1,000-1,500.00 range, and still beyond the reach of a lot of players.

Matt


That's true. I picked up my Schecter Hellcat Bass VI brand new for $500. I'd have rather bought a Fender but the cheapest one I found was $2k.


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tommygunn wrote:
It's actually a barritone guitar. A six sting bass is tuned BEADGC, not EADGBE. A barritone guitar is tuned like a guitar. Danelectro makes a semi-cheap barri. Check it out


It does get confusing.

Many people differentiate as such

BEADF#B and ADGCEA, a 4th and a 5th down from standard, are frequently referred to as baritone tunings. Scale lengths for these tunings are usually 27.5-30"

EADGBE, a full octave down, is a Bass VI, 6sb, or tic-tac bass tuning. Scale length is similar to a bari guitar.

BEADGC takes the standard strings of a full-size bass guitar and adds a low B and a high C. Anthony Jackson and other studio bass guysoften refer to this as a Contrabass guitar.

Is it a perfect consensus? Never! Just a matter of non-standardized nomenclature

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Tele295 wrote:
tommygunn wrote:
It's actually a barritone guitar. A six sting bass is tuned BEADGC, not EADGBE. A barritone guitar is tuned like a guitar. Danelectro makes a semi-cheap barri. Check it out


It does get confusing.

Many people differentiate as such

BEADF#B and ADGCEA, a 4th and a 5th down from standard, are frequently referred to as baritone tunings. Scale lengths for these tunings are usually 27.5-30"

EADGBE, a full octave down, is a Bass VI, 6sb, or tic-tac bass tuning. Scale length is similar to a bari guitar.

BEADGC takes the standard strings of a full-size bass guitar and adds a low B and a high C. Anthony Jackson and other studio bass guysoften refer to this as a Contrabass guitar.

Is it a perfect consensus? Never! Just a matter of non-standardized nomenclature


Bass VI scale is 30". If you tried to put the Bass VI strings on a 27.5 (baritone scale neck) The E or lowest string would not tune properly.


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