The Univox 'Lectra was a
bass guitar made by
Univox modeled originally on the
Höfner 500/1 bass, popularized by
Paul McCartney in the early days of
the Beatles, and later on the
Gibson EB-1
The Gibson EB-1 is a bass guitar that Gibson introduced in 1953. It was their first bass guitar.
History
Gibson first marketed the EB-1 (initially calling it simply, the ''Electric Bass'') in 1953 in response to the success of the Fender Prec ...
, both
violin shaped guitars. The bass was available from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s.
The 'Lectra had a 22
fret
A fret is any of the thin strips of material, usually metal wire, inserted laterally at specific positions along the neck or fretboard of a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck. On some historical instrume ...
bolt on
neck
The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso. The neck supports the weight of the head and protects the nerves that carry sensory and motor information from the brain down to the rest of the body. In ...
and a
hollow body. The original model had two
pickups, while some of the models based on the Gibson EB-1 had one. Some later models had
f-holes
A sound hole is an opening in the body of a stringed musical instrument, usually the upper sound board.
Sound holes have different shapes:
* round in flat-top guitars and traditional bowl-back mandolins;
* F-holes in instruments from the v ...
cut into the body as well.
Finishes ranged from
sunburst
A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunbur ...
or tobacco burst to all black.
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