roy johnson was the inventor of the electric bass.
roy johnson was the inventor of the electric bass.
who was the inventor of the electric bass?
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in the 1930s, musician and inventor paul tutmarc of seattle, washington, developed the first electric bass guitar in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally. the 1935 sales catalog for tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, audiovox, featured his "model 736 bass fiddle", a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass guitar with a scale length, and a single pick up
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according to the "new grove dictionary of music and musicians", an "electric bass guitar [is] a guitar, usually with four heavy strings tuned e'-a'-d-g." it also defines "bass" as "bass (iv). a contraction of double bass or electric bass guitar." according to some authors the proper term is "electric bass". common names for the instrument are "bass guitar", "electric bass guitar", and "electric bass" and some authors claim that they are historically accurate.









































the bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds.









































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