Barkerbass

Barker Bass Facts:1. It's a bass guitar played vertically.2. If you play a bass guitar, you will happily adapt to the Barker in 20 minutes or less.3. It's available in 4 and 5 string configurations, fretted, fretless and lined fretless.4. It's an eye-catching, ear-pleasing tone monster.5. You can read more about it at our sponsored forum on talkbass.com.6. You can watch Barker videos on MySpace.7. The Barker Bass is hand crafted by a small company in Redmond, Oregon USA.The Summary:Leo Fender designed the P-Bass because the upright acoustic orchestral bass was not up to the musical task defined by the Les Paul electric guitar.Leo did four things: 1/ Used metal strings and magnetic pickups; 2/ Reduced the scale to 34"; 3/ Installed frets; 4/ Put it in a guitar shape with a shoulder strap. To his ongoing credit and proper place in the pantheon of musical instrument innovators, that same exact design is played by millions of bassists and is still built to his original specs.Lee Barker took one of those four things away--the guitar shape--and discovered, to the delight of Barker owners all over the world, that the Barker Bass is more than the sum of its parts.Ask your music store about the Barker Bass.