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Originally Posted by Gogogo
Ok, I've got a few questions about Paul's violin bass:
1) What is the make and model?
2) He has a few of these, but where and when did he aquire his first (original)?
3) How many basses were made _exactly_ like the original?
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Gogogo has a stumper, here. As I said, the rules of the challenge force me to answer from memory without Internet aids. It would be so easy to look all this up, but no fun, either.
I *know* that the bass is a Hoffner, but that's it. My *guess* is that the first one was bought in Hamburg in '59 or so when the Beatles played the strip clubs there.
When I saw McCartney in Atlanta in 2002, he played a Hoffner bass, of course, and he told a story to the audience about the scratches on it. Early in the Beatles' career, he taped a set list to the body of the Hoffner, and it scratched the finish when he pulled it off. Now, each Hoffner he buys is scratched in the same place to make it a more authentic-looking replica.
I don't have any idea how many there are, but I'd love to know where the original one is.