Until the fifties, whenever a bass player got a job, it was always the same drama to carry an awkward and heavy wooden giant to the "gig" site. Surviving the trip, there was the problem of the somewhat discreet volume of the non-microphone instrument. It was then that a man forever changed the world of music, giving the bass a previously unknown status.

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Leo Fender, a 42-year-old electronics technician from Southern California, launched, at the end of 1951, the most revolutionary musical instrument of the 20th century. Inspired by the Telecaster electric guitar, the first solid body with contemporary characteristics, which he had put on the market just a year earlier, Fender created the electric bass guitar, or simply electric bass. Calling it Precision, since the frets on its 34-inch scale allowed precision in the notes, it quickly became known among musicians, being called by them Fender Bass, for some time. The size of the scale, considered ideal until today, was chosen after many researches and tests of error and correctness by Leo and his companion, George Fullerton. The 30-inch scales did not allow the string to vibrate as expected to produce a good sound and the 36-inch scales made it difficult for the musician, due to the size of the houses.

Its design was bold and totally different from the traditional double bass, its ash body with two cutouts, to allow access to the higher notes, maple neck fixed to the body by four screws and a pickup in Alnico (aluminum alloy, nickel and cobalt) ) with volume and tone controls. It was connected to an amplifier specially designed by Fender to reproduce the lower frequencies of the instrument (Bassman Amp), launched at the same time. The electric bass was born ready, without any evolution being necessary, as it would happen with the guitar, the organ, and even the drums. Invited by Leo Fender to visit his factory and try out Precision Bass, bassist William "Monk" Montgomery (brother of virtuoso guitarist Wes Montgomery) was one of the first to promote the new instrument across the USA and Europe.

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