Optimized by the settings of our resident luthier. 1975 (serial 640XXX) Fender Musicmaster bass guitar with the following features: Original olympic white finish, alder body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and dot inlays, individual chrome plated tuners, Fender peghead logo, white pickguard, 1 pickup, 1 volume and 1 tone control. It has a great dynamic thanks to its original pickup. The Type 1 MusicMasterer is a 4-String pickup intended for the neck position on Fender MusicMaster basses that utilize a single coil pickup in the neck. Available in Red, White and Blue finishes, all priced at 162.50 (US price, 2/72).
The image used on this page is the same one used in the 1970 guitar and bass catalog. This short scale produces some really nice 70's tones, with a natural light compression, typical from the late 70's Fenders. The Musicmaster guitar was the very cheapest Fender solid body electric single pickup, and available with either a standard or 3/4 scale neck. The body only shows some "dings" and signs of wear, which adds to the visual signature of the guitar. The issue looks to be one of the eyelet coil wires has been severed. The overall state of the guitar is pretty neat (body, neck and electronic), especially for a 45 years old guitar. Up for sale is a Fender short scale guitar pickup. Guitare Collection is proud to offer this very nice Fender Musicmaster Black from 1977. 3/4-size student solidbody electric, essentially the single-pickup version of the duo-sonic, offset-waist double-cutaway alder body in maroon burst, nice and light at 6.1 pounds, maple neck with brazilian rosewood fingerboard, 22.5 scale, 1. Thanks to its simplified electronic diagram, those Fenders offer a very dynamic sound. Musicmasters offers a unique sound which can be modulate with the tone potentiometer. With a shorter body and neck and therefore an easier guitar to take in hand and easier to play (shorter handle therefore less tension in the strings) the Musicmaster offers at its launch a single neck pickup, volume and tone buttons.Įven though it was built with the same components than the Stratocaster and the Telecaster (and by the same hands), Fender was proposing, with the Musicmaster, an electric guitar for a very reasonable price. This explains why you were able to move poles without killing the pickup.Production of Fender Musicmaster guitars begins in 1956, when Fender decides to offer an electric guitar for beginners. The guitar was built in early 1964, shortly before the company was sold to CBS. 111 rounds on my Mustang Bass (at the moment).Īlso FWIW is that the pickup you modified is not the original pickup. This '64 Musicmaster features a shorter 22 1 / 2' scale length and single slant-mounted plastic covered pickup at the neck.
This will generally improve both tone and feel, and make it feel more like a "Big Boy Bass." I run. Of course, like any short scale, it can benefit greatly from thicker strings. I never found the pickup weak or imbalanced. 1959 Fender Musicmaster Pickup with Creme colored Cover Heres what I know: I have had this pickup since approx 1972/73. I have played, literally, hundreds of gigs on it since then, and nearly as many practices. Red-Mahogany was probably Fender’s answer to Gibson’s Cherry Red. Today these are scarce, as they were produced for only a month or two. If you could mount a bass pickup on a guitar, it would sound like a guitar and there would be no affect on the high.
The history of the Musicmaster stretches back to the mid-'50s, when it was introduced as one of Fender's first-ever 3/4 scale student model guitars. Just a single coil pickup in the neck position with one one and one volume control. Another variant was produced in the autumn with a single-ply dark brown pickguard. The Shawn Mendes Foundation Musicmaster is a one-of-a-kind guitar that complements Mendes' unique style combining classic Fender tone and exquisite vintage inspired art in one striking instrument. The early Musicmaster, though well-built, was a very simple instrument. My dad bought the bass brand new in '76, and I inherited it when he died in 2007. White Musicmasters and Duo-Sonics were fitted with a nitrocellulose tortoiseshell pickguard and white pickup covers. Rails would eliminate any pole spacing concerns (though IME, there don't need to be any such concerns).įWIW, a '76 is my main gigging bass, so I am very familiar with them. The pole spacing is not an issue.īut if hum is the issue, any Strat-sized humbucker will work. The original Musicmaster/Duo-Sonic/Mustang guitar pickups that went in those basses were fine, IMO. Re: Hot Rails as a single for 'Fender Musicmaster' bass guitar?Ĭurtis Novak is the only one of whom I am aware who makes a 4-pole-but-otherwise "vintage style" Musicmaster Bass pickup.
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