Bartell Bass

[67plexi]

I found a 1965 bartell fretless at the pawn shop never seen one until now

Meet the Bartell Bass

One day my friend Derrick who is also a glutton for odd guitars, came in with an unbranded hollowbody bass he had bought off of Craigslist, claiming it was the first fretless bass guitar ever produced for the mass market. Turns out, it might be.

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[SG John]

Cool! Did you grab it???

 

[67plexi]

Thinking about it George Harrison and Jimmi Hendrix had the guitar version

 

[eSGEe]

gorgeous

 

[fretless]

Good tone for a short scale. A veritable gold mine with strings!

 

[eSGEe]

could never have one --- that would be the one the dogs would eat ........ and I have a nervous breakdown ............................ wait no had one of those....or 3 -- maybe Id just become NORMAL ............................... ugh

 

[CoyotesGator]

poop man.

Go get it!

Flip it to one of us if you don’t like it!

 

[67plexi]

Well I went back to buy it and 50 people in the store I played it nice light weight nice neck also sounded good unpluged