Guitars & Basses History The 50ies and 60ies
Guitars & Basses
In 1955 Walter Höfner, a creative businessman as well as a violin and guitar maker, invented an electrically amplified semi-acoustic bass. The distinctive 500/1 bass was launched at the 1956 Frankfurt Music Fair and subsequently rose to fame under a different name.In 1961 Paul McCartney bought his first Höfner bass in a music shop in Hamburg. Paul’s ‘Beatle Bass’ can be heard on many of the Beatles‘ most famous songs and still accompanies him on stage and in the studio to this day.