The Tutmarc bass…

[Bflat]

Doug Tutmarc with a rare unadvertised Tutmarc amp designed by Bob Wisner.

 

[Jaygetsreal]

I really enjoyed reading about this. Might make a pilgrimage to the Seattle Museum of Pop Culture to see one. (Pic credit VintageGuitar.com)

 

[GretschWretch]

Doug Tutmarc with a rare unadvertised Tutmarc amp designed by Bob Wisner.

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OH!!! How I would love it if we could take these amps to gigs and be loud enough to be heard. Looky and lighty.

 

[Bflat]

OH!!! How I would love it if we could take these amps to gigs and be loud enough to be heard. Looky and lighty.

I've got an empty case of one of these amps that was never sold, so maybe

 

[GretschWretch]

I've got an empty case of one of these amps that was never sold, so maybe

Maybe indeed. Let me PM you in a few days; there may be some other things in play. My community band played a 4th of July observance in one town last night and in another town this morning. That's nine marches in fifteen hours, plus other pieces. My upper lip is still numb. But I did nail those high Bflats in "Stars and Stripes Forever." But being out in Alabama heat for long periods two days in a row has taken its toll on me.

 

[Gopherbassist]

Isn't there a solidbody electric bass from the 1920s or earlier? The "frying pan," I think it was called?

 

[HaphAsSard]

Isn't there a solidbody electric bass from the 1920s or earlier? The "frying pan," I think it was called?

The "Frying Pan" - Rickenbacker Electro A-22 - was a lap steel guitar, and "the first commercially successful electric guitar."
And no, no such thing. The 1936 (surfaced in early '37) Tutmarc bass - Audiovox mod. 736 Bass Fiddle - was the first electric bass guitar, period.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

So which one of you was the first to slap Higher Ground on it?