Squier Musicmaster Bass

I have recently sold a very nice Squier Vista series Musicmaster bass in a beautiful vintage shell pink colour.

This is a very well made bass and is very similar in to my white Fender mustang, It has a solid alder body and maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. It is a shortscale (30″) bass and the truss rod adjusts at the headstock end rather than the body end of the neck.

Whereas a mustang bass has a split humbucking pickup like a mini precision bass one, the original 1970s Fender musicmaster basses used standard six pole (strat or mustang guitar) pickups with a solid cover. For the vista series musicmaster, Squier used a specially designed four pole pickup, similar in appearance to the ones used in original 50s precision & 60s telecaster basses. This pickup gives the bass a great punchy tone that works well in rock music.

Another difference between the vista series and an original 70s musicmaster is that the vista series has a string-through bridge with separate saddles for each string whereas the original design had only two saddles and was top-loading only.