Fender Bass - Roscoe Beck 5 string fretless

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Fender Roscoe Beck 5 ...a serious bass for serious bassists. De-fretted and strung with flat wounds. Comes with case. This bass, while passive, is unsurpassed for tone selection and hum avoidance-and no batteries!In answer to requests, I have included pics of the surface 'dings' on the bodywork.Defretted professionally by either Vintage and Rare, or Chandler's - don't remember which.Used but not abused, and recorded on music from Jamelia to Joan Armatrading to James Bond, to mention a few.(Please note: Buy now requires immediate Paypal payment...Evie) Dual-coil humbucking pickups, each of which can be run in single-, series-, or parallel-coil wiring modes. Two small DPDT (double pole, double throw) on/on/on switches control the modes: "up" is parallel, "center" is single-coil, and "down" is series. Since Roscoe is a fan of early J-Basses, the pickups' back coils are placed in exact Jazz-pickup position.Another important element of the instrument's fat-and-round sound is the pickups' alnico "Tri-Pole" magnet configuration. Although the pickups appear to have 12 polepieces each, there are actually 22, as each string has two dedicated magnets directly below it, located underneath the pickups' covers. Fender says this arrangement reduces the "double-beating effect" for better intonation past the 12th fret, because the magnets have read more

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