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Höfner Shorty Violin Bass CT Red

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Electric Bass

  • Combines the charm of the Shorty Bass with the vintage flair of a real Violin Beatles model
  • Body: Mahogany
  • Neck: Maple
  • Fingerboard: Rosewood
  • Scale: 760 mm
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • 24 Frets
  • Pickup: 1 Höfner humbucker
  • Volume and tone controls
  • Original Hofner Tea Cup knobs
  • Fixed bridge
  • Open vintage tuners
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Metallic Red
  • Incl. gig bag
Available since January 2023
Item number 559114
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Red
Body Mahogany
Neck Maple
Fretboard Rosewood
Frets 24
Pickup System H
Elektronic Passive
Incl. Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
Electric Bass Guitar 1
Top Non
Scale 760 mm
Saddle Width 42 mm
Pickup Configuration H
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$196
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A 50's classic in a small package

Höfner Shorty Violin Bass CT Red

Höfner's famous "Beatle Bass" with its distinctive violin shape has been popular since its launch in the mid-1950s, and the German guitar manufacturer now offers a smaller and more space-saving version: The Shorty Violin Bass. Despite its diminutive looks, however, this bass is no toy, but a genuine short-scale instrument with a bolt-on maple neck, a rosewood fingerboard, and a body made from mahogany. The bass features Höfner's typical "Shorty" headstock design, and a covered Höfner humbucking pickup in the neck position provides a full (if slightly nasal) sound. The scope of delivery also includes a basic gig bag.

Höfner Shorty Violin Bass with mahogany body and humbucker

Fast neck - long sustain

With a full 24 frets at their disposal, bassists who pick up the Höfner Shorty Violin Bass can look forward to virtually limitless playing enjoyment, and the pleasantly flat neck profile and dot fingerboard inlays will ensure both comfort and easy orientation for playing single-note runs and melodies. The Shorty Violin Bass also features the 76cm (30") scale length found on the majority of short-scale basses, together with the same proven fret size and spacing, so this instrument will not take any getting used to, and its slim neck taper - with a nut width of just 42mm - also means that guitarists will not feel out of their depth. The flush-mounted pickguard covers around a third of the Shorty Violin Bass's top in order to prevent damage to the finish when it is played with a plectrum, and its solid-body construction also ensures extra-long sustain.

Höfner Shorty Violin Bass mahogany body with maple neck

For fans of retro instruments

The Höfner Shorty Violin Bass is the ideal companion for anyone who wants a bass with a standard short scale length to take on the road. And fans of retro instruments will certainly appreciate its authentic "Beatle Bass" flair, which is complete right down to Höfner's characteristic "tea cup" knobs for the volume and tone pots and enhanced further by the red finish, chrome-coloured hardware, and vintage-style open-gear machine heads. An additional bonus is the fixed bridge with its four individual saddles, which allows the intonation of each string to be adjusted easily and accurately. The compact, one might almost say "pocket-sized" Shorty Violin Bass thus gives players a fully-fledged instrument at a budget-friendly price.

Headstock with Höfner logo

About Höfner

The Höfner company has a long tradition and was founded by Karl Höfner in Schönbach at the end of the 19th century. Initially, the product range consisted mainly of bowed string instruments, and the first guitars were added around 1930. After the Second World War, the company was relocated to Möhrendorf in Bavaria. In the 1950s, the company flourished thanks to new musical trends, and basses were now introduced in addition to guitars. Legendary models were created during this time, such as the President, the Committee, and the 500/1 short-scale bass, which made music history a short time later with the Beatles. The subsequent boom in Beat music quickly brought Höfner enormous demand and enduring world fame. Today, Höfner is one of the best-known and largest manufacturers of bowed string instruments and of archtop, semi-acoustic, and solid-body guitars, as well as a wide range of basses.

From practice session to party performance

The reduced length of the Höfner Shorty Violin Bass makes it very easy to transport and thus the ideal travel companion for everyone who can't NOT play bass while on vacation, and its scale length also makes it ideal for practising scales and exercises while watching TV at home or while colleagues are out of the office. Combined with a small battery-powered amp - and of course with a buddy playing a Höfner Shorty guitar - it can also provide the perfect musical accompaniment for garden parties, barbecues, and even around the campfire - time to ditch those hiking songs in favour of some good old Beatles classics.

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Im in love !
Tony Hendrix 05.12.2024
Tuned it up and wallah!
All set up nice ...neck felt nice ....so easy to play!
Big sound for such a skinny bass.
Neck dives a bit ...but hey its a small body !
I found it easy to play in the lap as hand resting keeps it still,and its so light anyways!
Standing my well developed lattimus dorsai kept the strap in place !🤣
Only stunning finish appart from a tiny paint fault by the neck ...hardly anything really...oh and the pickguard near the bridge does my nut a bit !😁
Just a little rounded corner couldve made it look a tad classier 😉
Thanks thomman great service and courier too ....big up DHL 😁
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Giggable! Huggable!
Bobbaphat 08.05.2024
Gigged this at the weekend because I had to walk a fair distance to the venue and didn’t want to lug one of my full size basses.
It performed well and got a few interfered looks as well.
The neck is a bit chunky, but the comfort of the short scale makes up for it once you get used to it.
It just fits in the premium shorty bass bag, so I’d recommend getting one of those. The one it comes with is very basic.
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Shorty violin basse
Chanakan 30.07.2023
Cette basse de voyage est facile à prendre en main . La main droite se positionne facilement A cause de son faible poids elle a tendance à piquer de la tête mais pas très gênant. Se corrige aisément en ajustant la sangle .ou en relevant un peu la main gauche. Facile de jouer sur le canapé ou transat a la piscine .Son look rétro et son aspect jouet ne passent pas inaperçu. Mais quand on joue , c est un vrai instrument avec un son très correct
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Donnerwetter, ein Kracher!
Reyno 16.08.2023
Ich hatte bereits das Vergnügen mit dem schon etwas länger am Markt befindlichen Shorty mit dem Pickup an der Bridge, der von mir mit einem zusätzlichen Halspickup nachgerüstet wurde, damit er ordentlich klingt. Und jetzt das! Der Kleine rockt quasi out of the box, lediglich Flatwound Saiten wurden noch aufgezogen, um den klassischen Höfner Rums zu bekommen. Eine gewisse Prezi Bass Note schimmert vernehmbar durch. Jetzt habe ich zwei ernst zu nehmend klingende Kurze zum Mitreisen an Bord, auch die Mitmusiker sind voll des Lobes. Die Verarbeitung ist ok mit Entwicklungspotential für individuelles Feintuning.
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