1970 Höfner 500/1 M violin bass REDUCED! £600 £800

[maut]

GBP 600 / EUR 685

 

 

A genuine German vintage Höfner, the pots date it to the year 1970.

 

It´s one of the very rare 500/1 M series with active eletronics, the M stands for Mix.

 

It comes with original case and some old extra strings. The handle on the case is lost and replaced with a leather belt.

 

The neck is very nice, there are no problems with the neck setting. Cosmetically the bass is in very good condition.

 

There are two problems with this bass. First, there´s a hole drilled into the top between the string holder and the volume knob, please check the pics.

Second, most of the electrics don´t work. The only sound it makes comes from the neck pickup, this sounds deep and loud as it should and brings the typical Beatles "Come Together" tone. The best idea might be to connect the pickups directly to the knobs and pickup selector switch in passive mode, this should be easy. I don´t even know what exactly the active Mix mode did, there´s not a lot of info available.

 

If you want to put it back into the original condition with active mode, I´m sure the Höfner company can help as they have a very customer friendly service. It should be possible to get the original electronics layouts from them.

 

I´m in Berlin, shipping is no problem.

 

Please click on the pics to see them in high res.!

 

 

Edited January 31, 2018 by maut
New price

[maut]

Shipping to the UK with GLS is EUR 30,-

Thanks

[ash]

Did this ever sell? 

[manueljauregui]

it did, lives in Argentina now, great seller!