Series: Sounds of Success - Höfner Electric Bass | euromaxx

If it's good enough for Paul McCartney of the Beatles,it's good enough for most. In our series on successful German musical instrument companies,we look at world-renowned Höfner guitars. McCartney called his instrument My little Hofner Baby . The Höfner Bass was first produced in 1956. After McCartney discovered it in a Hamburg music shop in 1961,it got the nickname the Beatles Bass .

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[afzoomie67]

it's ironic, Come Together was recorded on a Rickebacker!

[BassGuitar916]

Its funny because in the begining they are playing come together and paul used a rickenbacher not a hofner

[patrii9100]

@afzoomie67 right

[Jontenn]

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[ShadowPheonix12]

Paul definitely used a Hofner in Come Together, in fact i'm pretty sure he had moved back to the Hofner to record Let It Be and Abbey Road

[TheSeaneriomnicous]

You're saying it like "Hoof-ner". It's Hofner. Not Hoofner.

[adrian5b]

@BeanTheCoffee Nope, Chuck Testa... that's the chinese version, I've never tried it, but it's supposedly ok. McCartney uses that $3500 german piece of beauty.

[carlos45703030]

@toisver The song is "Michelle"

[stratovani]

I have a Hofner Icon Beatle bass, along with a Fender P-Bass, and I love playing it. It has a deep, pure, organic sound, and I play it straight into a bass amp without pedals. I also love its light weight and easy playability. The only thing I have against it is that the strings are closer together than me P-Bass, which makes playing fingerstyle harder, so I use a pick. All in all a great bass. Maybe someday I'll have the money to get me a 500/1!

[JosephODonnellMusic]

@BeanTheCoffee No.