Carl Thompson - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Carl Thompson has been building custom order, hand crafted and completely unique basses and guitars since 1974, including the first electric 6-string bass and piccolo bass
For Sale - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Carl Thompson has been building custom order, hand crafted and completely unique basses and guitars since 1974, including the first electric 6-string bass and piccolo bass
Les Claypool - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments The fourth, and most infamous Carl Thompson bass Les owns, is a 6 string fretless multi wood bass It is nicknamed the “Rainbow Bass” because it has strips of walnut, curly maple, padauk, purple heart, ebony and cocobolo The strings are threaded through the back of the rear extension – near where the strap pin is
Models - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Carl Thompson has been building custom order, hand crafted and completely unique basses and guitars since 1974, including the first electric 6-string bass and piccolo bass
The Bass Book - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments However, the first piccolo bass that Thompson made for Clarke had the same ‘full’ 34in scale-length as a bass guitar This, and the fact that it was devised by a bass player who played with a bassist’s technique, meant that it was more a high-tuned bass than anything else
About Carl - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Carl Thompson has been building custom order, hand crafted and completely unique basses and guitars since 1974, including the first electric 6-string bass and piccolo bass
4-String Basses - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Fretless 4-string 9-21-21 This bass has a mahogany neck and core, ebony fingerboard and heel block, pau ferro neck binding, myrtle top and back wings, pau ferro top and back center and purple heart stripes, control plate, fret markers and pickup cover
Guitars - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Carl Thompson has been building custom order, hand crafted and completely unique basses and guitars since 1974, including the first electric 6-string bass and piccolo bass
Stanley Clarke - Carl Thompson - Fine Handmade Instruments Stanley Clarke is credited with conceptualizing the piccolo bass (a bass tuned one octave higher) In 1974 he approached Carl Thompson to realize the concept and the first piccolo, 34” scale serial number 9-74 was born