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(More customer reviews)I'll qualify my remarks by noting I've been playing bass over 40 years. I own, and have played, good stuff, and stuff that looks better than it plays. This Hofner Club Bass (C-Bass, C-Series), made in Indonesia, is designed as a vintage guitar, and achieves that look and feel completely. It is short-scale, with a body the same size and dimensions as a Les Paul. It is finished caringly, and the woodgrain in both the spruce and maple is handsome. The gloss (lacquer?) finish is flawless. There is no neck binding. The pickguard is nicely executed in a too-white pearloid-look plastic, which does not detract aesthetically. The sunburst coloration has an accurate '50s/'60s vintage look. The volume knobs are tiny and crappy, and I replaced them. The rosewood fingerboard has a high-quality finish and look to it. I replaced the factory roundwound strings with Labella Beatle Bass Flatwounds, and the hollow (I don't believe there's a sustain block) body with flatwounds yields the bottomy, woody sound you'd expect. The guitar has a quite broad tonal range, and unconventional switches. It very comfortable on the knee or over the shoulder. It DOES feel extremely light, and one is tempted to say, CHEAP, as a result. However, it plays great right out of the box (no set-up), has great tone, is effortless to sling for 3 hours, and you don't see them around, either in Indonesian, Chinese (Contemporary $700) or German ($2000+) iterations. The "cool" factor is big, and the price makes it a no-brainer as a second or back-up bass.
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