500/1 Violin Bass Designed by Klaus Voorman

bobjones2260 · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 1:46 pm

Very unique bass, this one is 56 of 60 made. If your not a Beatles fan Klaus Voorman is a great artist and musician who was friends with The Beatles in the early days and most notably designed the Revolver Album cover.

More details can be found her

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/collections/left-handed/products/hofner-gold-label-berlin-60th-anniversary-limited-edition-500-1-violin-bass-designed-by-klaus-voorman-lefty-w-hardshell-case-used-s56-60

tim · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 1:49 pm

Beautiful.

It looks like you pasted the link in between the "her" and "e" of "here."

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/pr ... sed-s56-60

But this is amazing: the lefty is $1,700 while the two righties are $3,000 and $4,000, respectively.

Grant · **Joined:** July 5th, 2017, 2:36 am **Posts:** 306

In fact this has been on Reverb for about 5 weeks now infact they say they have 3 available.

https://reverb.com/item/5464622-hofner- ... us-voorman

tim · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 3:28 pm

Grant wrote:

In fact this has been on Reverb for about 5 weeks now infact they say they have 3 available.

https://reverb.com/item/5464622-hofner- ... us-voorman

The "three" might be the two righties and one lefty.

rdavidson · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 4:58 pm

While often primarily associated with the Revolver cover art, Klaus was an amazing bassist in his own right. He played on a ton of albums, including the Plastic Ono Band record and a bunch of John's solo work, a ton of Ringo's solo work, and others including Harry Nilsson and Leon Russell. At one point during the dark end stages of the Beatles, John was rumored to want to replace Paul with Klaus. (Similar to his comment about Clapton and Harrison.) Nonetheless, he's an amazingly accomplished bassist!!!

All that said, I'm not sure I dig the artwork on this bass. My verdict is still out. However, I do know I don't like the look and layout of the volume/tone knobs. But to each their own!

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2866

Saw one of these at NAMM last year (2 years ago maybe?). IMHO, it's way more stunning in person. At that time Hofner told me no lefty's would be available.

rdavidson · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 5:12 pm

rdavidson wrote:

While often primarily associated with the Revolver cover art, Klaus was an amazing bassist in his own right. He played on a ton of albums, including the Plastic Ono Band record and a bunch of John's solo work, a ton of Ringo's solo work, and others including Harry Nilsson and Leon Russell. At one point during the dark end stages of the Beatles, John was rumored to want to replace Paul with Klaus. (Similar to his comment about Clapton and Harrison.) Nonetheless, he's an amazingly accomplished bassist!!!

All that said, I'm not sure I dig the artwork on this bass. My verdict is still out. However, I do know I don't like the look and layout of the volume/tone knobs. But to each their own!

I should also say I'm one of the biggest Beatles fans on the planet!!!!! For what that's worth to my comments. :-)

AzWhoFan · **Joined:** March 14th, 2008, 10:57 am **Posts:** 2866

tim wrote:

Beautiful.

It looks like you pasted the link in between the "her" and "e" of "here."

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/pr ... sed-s56-60

But this is amazing: the lefty is $1,700 while the two righties are $3,000 and $4,000, respectively.

that price is worth it for the coffee mug alone!!! :lol:

Matt R. · **Posted:** December 14th, 2017, 5:44 pm

bobjones2260 · **Posted:** December 15th, 2017, 5:43 am

I fixed the link also great reading on Klaus Voorman can be found here. As it states he started with the Beatles back in the Hamburg days and as noted on this thread did alot of his own music and art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Voormann

Here is a cool custom guitar paint job of the "Revolver Cover" that I would love to have from BeyondCustomGuitars.com.

LeftyBassist.com

500/1 Violin Bass Designed by Klaus Voorman

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