Hohner Bass 3 analog bass keyboard COMPLETELY OVERHAULED !


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Hohner Bass 3 analog bass keyboard 


Completely overhauled and cosmetically like new ! 


Deep basses that sounds phatt and will rumble your speakers. 


A classic from the 70's 



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The Hohner "Bass 3" keyboard bass was a type of monophonic analogue  synthesizer used as a separate unit in association with other keyboards  and synthesizers. As a development of the Hohner Basset, which was one  of the earliest solid-state electronic instruments, it featured three  preset voice options to add a variety of bass tones.  The 'Bass 3' is important as an example of electronic keyboard  development where more standard instrument sounds were being replicated  through electronic technology. In this case the instrument was sound  specific in that it could be used by keyboard players to get sounds  covering the range of a bass guitar as well as alternative settings  aiming, with varying success, to reproduce sounds of other bass  instruments such as the double bass and tuba. Other bass keyboards and  bass pedals also gained popularity through the 1960s and 1970s such as  Fender's Rhodes piano bass.   The 'Bass 3' is also important in providing a point of comparison with  other keyboards that used electronic technologies to reproduce a variety  of musical instruments. Some of these are reflected in the Museum's  collection such as the Mellotron 400 (96/23/1) from the mid 1970s that  used tapes of various instruments which were played by pressing keyboard  keys. Although also an example of a short compass monophonic  synthesizer, the Mini Moog (87/1415) from the early 1970s had much  broader applications than the more instrument and capability specific  Bass 3. An ARP 'Odyssey' (2004/159/1) from the mid 1970s shows the  development from monophonic to duophonic synthesizers.