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.
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This bass has been sold and the text has been ammended to reflect this
This bass was sold to me! And i agree with everything wrote easily fender quality. Cant belive i just found my bass on the internet. I bloody love it. Cheers
I’m glad the bass went to a good home and you’re enjoying it.
Was just wondering if you had this bass from new or if you knew about its past like how the ding in the back happend. Cheers
I’d owned it for probably about five or six years. The chap I bought it from said he got it to form a band which never got off the ground. It already had the ding when I got it.