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It’s no news that Coppolo basses are obsessive to myself and many other player / collectors in the world. Here comes something less popular. The Alleva Coppolo 81009, the Old Fashioned Electric bass 5, the OG telecaster style precision bass, in 5 string form.
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People often see the 60s style LG line from Alleva Coppolo as their ultimate, Jimmy also makes exceptional 70s style LM line. And when it comes to flexibility, it comes to his RA line, it’s the mixture of 60s and 70s jazz bass and has the best of both worlds. After own/tried many of them, I’ve finally pulled the trigger and had this bass built to my specs.
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Electric bass was first invented in the 30s by Paul Tutmarc, then it was mass-produced in the 50’s by Leo Fender and the rest was history. They were initially made to do what the upright bass do in a smaller, more portable package. It was first made with frets on so that it’s easier to play, what’s also why it was called the precision bass.. Throughout the years, there were many variation and improvements over all kinds of combinations and designs. There was first the Violin bass by Hofner in German, then until recent year, another German luthier Marleaux had build a semi-hollow electric bass with upright bass in mind.
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Here comes something you don’t get to see so often .. Jimmy’s exhibition piece for NAMM 2008, the 1600 Limited Edition
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2 years after the release of the original short scale Stingray , I'm still digging this serious little guy ... to the point I had to buy another brandnew one ...
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After Rob’s MB2 (34”), then Mouse 30 (30”) , I’m lucky enough to try out this flagship model he offers. Where Rob says the Deep4/5 has the most convincing acoustic tone if cost is not an issue. And man .. I just can’t agree more.
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I’m a long term fan of short scale bass. It’s smaller, lighter and the shorter scale length just fits my asian hand better. My first bass was an early 2000 Ampeg AMB1 bass, bought the bass when I was like 17 years old with my first part-time salary. As my bass adventure goes throughout the years, knowing how a bass should sounded like, it became more difficult to find a short scale that delivers the same tonal quality as their full size brothers. And while I’m more financially stable compare to my teenager days, and how much more precise people are building musical instruments now. We’re in a very great era where there are some fun short scale basses that actually play and sound great. It was first the Stingray short scale, and now I have a chance to test drive this Fender Mustang bass.
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For a short period of time in the early 70, Fender came up with a bass that has alder body(60s) plus an all maple neck(70s) later on they started building basses with ash body, but these ‘transition’ basses had earned their reputation in bass history, the most famous one is probably Geddy Lee’s 72 jazz bass, the tuxedo.
Named after a New York bassist playing the same bass. RA is Jimmy Coppolo’s take of this special ones, and it happened to be the best of both world.
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Solid body string instruments are not rocket sciences, Stingray was first introduced in 1976, and throughout the years they’ve made their name in the music history and had their particular printed onto countless modern music.
Throughout the years, instrument design evolves, but mostly a little at a time Often manufactures would put their 1 or 2 signature product in all kinds of variations possible and try to squeeze out as much value as they possibly can and calling them the new innovative thing while they still keep in mind to ‘not mess around with the core product’ . However, in 2018 , EBMM had announced a new line of bass based on their best selling electric basses and they’re pretty darn serious.
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Alot of the high end, boutique level started in the early 80s, and after 4 decades of hard work building their art and crafts to where things are. Many of these builders are shifting into their retirement. Some of them had decided to train a group of apprentices and continue the brand in a more systematic way, some of them decided to sell the brands, and some of them have the 2nd generation taking over the business.