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class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other bass instruments, see <a href="/wiki/Bass_(instrument)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bass (instrument)">bass</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vea.guitarra.baixa.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Vea.guitarra.baixa.png/200px-Vea.guitarra.baixa.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Vea.guitarra.baixa.png/300px-Vea.guitarra.baixa.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Vea.guitarra.baixa.png/400px-Vea.guitarra.baixa.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Two acoustic bass guitars</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>acoustic bass guitar</b> (sometimes shortened to <b>acoustic bass</b> or initialized <b>ABG</b>) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than, a <a href="/wiki/Steel-string_acoustic_guitar" title="Steel-string acoustic guitar">steel-string acoustic guitar</a>. Like the traditional <a href="/wiki/Electric_bass_guitar" class="mw-redirect" title="Electric bass guitar">electric bass guitar</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">double bass</a>, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A-D-G, an <a href="/wiki/Octave" title="Octave">octave</a> below the lowest four strings of the 6-string <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>. </p><p>Because it can sometimes be difficult to hear an acoustic bass guitar without an <a href="/wiki/Instrument_amplifier" title="Instrument amplifier">amplifier</a> even in settings with other acoustic instruments, most acoustic basses have <a href="/wiki/Pick_up_(music_technology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pick up (music technology)">pickups</a>, either magnetic or <a href="/wiki/Piezoelectric_pickup" class="mw-redirect" title="Piezoelectric pickup">piezoelectric</a> or both, so that they can be amplified with a <a href="/wiki/Bass_amp" class="mw-redirect" title="Bass amp">bass amp</a>. </p><p>Traditional <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Mexico" title="Music of Mexico">music of Mexico</a> features several varieties of acoustic bass guitars, such as the <b><a href="/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano" title="Guitarrón mexicano">guitarrón</a></b>, a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass guitar played in <a href="/wiki/Mariachi" title="Mariachi">Mariachi</a> bands, the <b><a href="/wiki/Leona_(instrument)" title="Leona (instrument)">león</a></b>, plucked with a pick, and the <b><a href="/wiki/Bajo_sexto" title="Bajo sexto">bajo sexto</a></b>, with six pairs of strings. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acoustic_bass_guitar&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Estonbass.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Estonbass.jpg/100px-Estonbass.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Estonbass.jpg/150px-Estonbass.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Estonbass.jpg 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="501" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Eko_guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Eko guitars">Eston</a> acoustic bass guitar with no electric pickup, fretless but with fretlike markers, made in Italy in the 1980s</figcaption></figure> <p>The Bassoguitar built by the <a href="/wiki/Regal_Musical_Instrument_Company" title="Regal Musical Instrument Company">Regal Musical Instrument Company</a> was likely the first mass-produced acoustic bass to make use of a guitar-like body.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was an upright instrument, too big to play in a transverse position. The first modern acoustic bass guitar was developed in the mid-1950s by <a href="/wiki/Kay_Musical_Instrument_Company" title="Kay Musical Instrument Company">Kay</a> of Chicago.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Harptone started producing their B4 model in 1965 under the name Supreme; production ended in 1975. They also made a very limited number under the <a href="/wiki/Standel" title="Standel">Standel</a> logo. <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Ball" title="Ernie Ball">Ernie Ball</a> began producing a model in the early 70's. Ball's aim was to provide bass guitarists with a more acoustic-sounding instrument that would match better with the sound of <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_guitar" title="Acoustic guitar">acoustic guitars</a>. Ball stated that "...if there were electric bass guitars to go with <a href="/wiki/Electric_guitar" title="Electric guitar">electric guitars</a> then you ought to have acoustic basses to go with acoustic guitars." Ball said that "...the closest thing to an acoustic bass was the <a href="/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano" title="Guitarrón mexicano">Mexican guitarron</a>...in mariachi bands, so I bought one down in <a href="/wiki/Tijuana" title="Tijuana">Tijuana</a> and tinkered with it."<sup id="cite_ref-ernieball.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ernieball.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ball collaborated with <a href="/wiki/George_William_Fullerton" title="George William Fullerton">George William Fullerton</a>, a former employee at <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender</a>, to develop the <a href="/wiki/Earthwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Earthwood">Earthwood</a> acoustic bass guitar, which was introduced in 1972. Production of this instrument ceased in 1974, resuming a few years later under the direction of Ernie Ball's employee Dan Norton, until production finally ended again in 1985. The Earthwood acoustic bass guitar was quite large and deep in contrast to most instruments in current production, which gave it more volume, especially in the low register.<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070313231342/http://www.reyesaccordions.com/Images/Earthwood77.jpg">photo 1</a></sup> The Ernie Ball company describes Ball's design as "an idea before its time"; the instrument was little used in acoustic musical performances until the late 1980s, when the acoustic basses were used in performances on the <i><a href="/wiki/MTV_Unplugged" title="MTV Unplugged">MTV Unplugged</a></i> television program.<sup id="cite_ref-ernieball.com_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ernieball.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Earthwood was quickly supplanted by the Washburn AB-40 designed by Mick Donner and Richard Siegle. The AB-40 and the more affordable AB-20 became the instrument of choice for bass players appearing on <i>Unplugged</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Folk bass player <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Hutchings" title="Ashley Hutchings">Ashley Hutchings</a> used the acoustic bass guitar with his <a href="/wiki/Etchingham_Steam_Band" title="Etchingham Steam Band">Etchingham Steam Band</a> in 1974 and 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An early user of the acoustic bass guitar in rock was English multi-instrumentalist and composer <a href="/wiki/Mike_Oldfield" title="Mike Oldfield">Mike Oldfield</a>, who had one custom-built for him by luthier <a href="/wiki/Tony_Zemaitis" title="Tony Zemaitis">Tony Zemaitis</a> in the mid-1970s and used the bass on a number of his recordings from that time onwards, a prominent example being his 1975 album <i><a href="/wiki/Ommadawn" title="Ommadawn">Ommadawn</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Construction_and_tuning">Construction and tuning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acoustic_bass_guitar&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Construction and tuning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike the electric bass guitar, which is generally a <a href="/wiki/Solid_body" title="Solid body">solid body</a> instrument, the acoustic bass guitar usually has a hollow wooden body similar to (though usually somewhat larger than) that of the steel-string acoustic guitar. The majority of acoustic basses are <a href="/wiki/Fret" title="Fret">fretted</a>, but some are <a href="/wiki/Fretless_guitar" title="Fretless guitar">fretless</a> instead. Semi-fretted versions also exist, although they are quite rare.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Like the traditional electric bass and the double bass, the acoustic bass guitar commonly has four strings, which are normally tuned E-A-D-G, an octave below the lowest four strings of the 6-string <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>. Like the electric bass guitar, models with five or more strings have been produced, although these are less common. In part, this is because the body of an acoustic bass guitar is too small to produce a <a href="/wiki/Resonance" title="Resonance">resonance</a> of acceptable volume at lower pitches on the low "B" string. One solution uses the five string acoustic bass to add an additional high string ("E-A-D-G-C") instead of adding a low "B". Another solution is to rely on amplification to reproduce the low "B" string's notes, or by making the body a little bit larger. </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Washburn_AB-10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Washburn_AB-10.jpg/100px-Washburn_AB-10.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Washburn_AB-10.jpg/150px-Washburn_AB-10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Washburn_AB-10.jpg/200px-Washburn_AB-10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1385" data-file-height="3801" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Washburn_Guitars" title="Washburn Guitars">Washburn</a> AB-10 <a href="/wiki/Acoustic-electric_guitar" title="Acoustic-electric guitar">acoustic-electric</a> bass guitar</figcaption></figure> <p>There are also <a href="/wiki/Semi-acoustic" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-acoustic">semi-acoustic</a> models, fitted with pickups, for use with an amplifier. The soundbox of these instruments is not large enough to amplify the sound. Instead, it produces a distinctive tone when amplified, similarly to semi-acoustic electric guitars. Thin-body semi-acoustic basses such as the violin-shaped <a href="/wiki/H%C3%B6fner" title="Höfner">Höfner</a> made famous by the early <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">Beatles</a> and several <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender</a> models are not normally regarded as acoustic basses at all, but rather as hollow-bodied bass guitars. There are also semi-acoustic basses such as <a href="/wiki/Godin_(Guitar_Manufacturer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Godin (Guitar Manufacturer)">Godin Guitars</a>' "A-Series" that, once amplified, sound much closer between acoustic bass guitars and <a href="/wiki/Double_bass" title="Double bass">upright basses</a> (double bass), and have been used in professional circles to "simulate" one when it would be impractical for transportation and other reasons to use a full-sized upright bass. As with semi-acoustic electric guitars, the line between acoustic instruments fitted with pickups and electric instruments with tone-enhancing bodies is sometimes hard to draw. Some instruments can also be equipped with a variety of pickups such as <a href="/wiki/Piezoelectric_sensor" title="Piezoelectric sensor">piezo</a> pickups, the "standard" of acoustic-electric instruments as well as <a href="/wiki/Synthesizer" title="Synthesizer">synth</a> pickups that can replay "virtual" upright bass sounds and bring a semi-acoustic bass much closer to a double bass sonically. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Saga_Musical_Instruments" title="Saga Musical Instruments">Saga Musical Instruments</a> produces a four-string bass <a href="/wiki/Resonator_guitar" title="Resonator guitar">resonator guitar</a> under their <i><a href="/wiki/Regal_Musical_Instrument_Company" title="Regal Musical Instrument Company">Regal</a></i> brand name.<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070715071841/http://www.folkofthewood.com/page2517.htm">videos</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/National_Reso-Phonic_Guitars" title="National Reso-Phonic Guitars">National Reso-Phonic Guitars</a> also produce three models of resonator bass guitar.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One notable player of the resonator bass guitar is <a href="/wiki/Les_Claypool" title="Les Claypool">Les Claypool</a> of <a href="/wiki/Primus_(band)" title="Primus (band)">Primus</a>, who plays Regal RD-05 resonator basses.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manufacturers">Manufacturers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acoustic_bass_guitar&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Manufacturers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Other manufacturers of acoustic bass guitars (not mentioned above) include <a href="/wiki/Alvarez_Guitars" title="Alvarez Guitars">Alvarez</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Baton_Rouge_Guitars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Baton Rouge Guitars (page does not exist)">Baton Rouge</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Boulder_Creek_Guitars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Boulder Creek Guitars (page does not exist)">Boulder Creek Guitars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Breedlove_Guitars" title="Breedlove Guitars">Breedlove</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chesbro_Music_Company" title="Chesbro Music Company">Chesbro Music Company (Teton Guitars)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cort_Guitars" title="Cort Guitars">Cort</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Crafter_(guitar_manufacturer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crafter (guitar manufacturer) (page does not exist)">Crafter</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jerzey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jerzey (page does not exist)">Jerzey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dean_Guitars" title="Dean Guitars">Dean</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eko_guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Eko guitars">Eko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epiphone" title="Epiphone">Epiphone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eston_guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Eston guitars">Eston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Furch_Guitars" title="Furch Guitars">Furch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gibson_Guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Gibson Guitars">Gibson</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gold_Tone_Music_Groupe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gold Tone Music Groupe (page does not exist)">Gold Tone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guild_Guitar_Company" title="Guild Guitar Company">Guild</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibanez" title="Ibanez">Ibanez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larriv%C3%A9e_(guitar_company)" title="Larrivée (guitar company)">Larrivée</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lindo_Guitars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lindo Guitars (page does not exist)">Lindo Guitars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luna_Guitars" title="Luna Guitars">Luna Guitars</a>, <a href="/wiki/C.F._Martin_%26_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="C.F. Martin & Company">Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maton" title="Maton">Maton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kelly_Guitars" title="Michael Kelly Guitars">Michael Kelly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Schmidt_Inc." title="Oscar Schmidt Inc.">Oscar Schmidt by Washburn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ovation_Guitar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ovation Guitar">Ovation</a> and its subsidiary Applause, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ozark_Music&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ozark Music (page does not exist)">Ozark</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Prestige_guitars&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prestige guitars (page does not exist)">Prestige</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ribbecke_Halfling_Bass&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ribbecke Halfling Bass (page does not exist)">Ribbecke Halfling Bass</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samick" title="Samick">Samick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sigma_Guitars" title="Sigma Guitars">Sigma Guitars</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sunlite&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sunlite (page does not exist)">Sunlite</a>, Sandberg, <a href="/wiki/Spector_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spector (company)">Spector</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stagg_Music" title="Stagg Music">Stagg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tagima" title="Tagima">Tagima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tacoma_Guitars" title="Tacoma Guitars">Tacoma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Takamine_Guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Takamine Guitars">Takamine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanglewood_Guitars" title="Tanglewood Guitars">Tanglewood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Guitars" title="Taylor Guitars">Taylor</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Vintage_Guitars_(brand)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vintage Guitars (brand) (page does not exist)">Vintage Guitars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washburn_guitars" class="mw-redirect" title="Washburn guitars">Washburn</a> and <a href="/wiki/Warwick_(bass_guitar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Warwick (bass guitar)">Warwick</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mexican_bass_guitars">Mexican bass guitars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acoustic_bass_guitar&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mexican bass guitars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AcousticBassGtr.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/AcousticBassGtr.jpg/220px-AcousticBassGtr.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/AcousticBassGtr.jpg/330px-AcousticBassGtr.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/AcousticBassGtr.jpg/440px-AcousticBassGtr.jpg 2x" data-file-width="651" data-file-height="744" /></a><figcaption>Mexican <a href="/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano" title="Guitarrón mexicano">guitarrón</a> acoustic bass guitar</figcaption></figure> <p>Traditional music of Mexico features varieties of acoustic bass guitars. The <a href="/wiki/Guitarr%C3%B3n_mexicano" title="Guitarrón mexicano">guitarrón</a> is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass guitar played in Mariachi bands. The <a href="/wiki/Bajo_sexto" title="Bajo sexto">bajo sexto</a>, with six pairs of strings, resembles a twelve-string guitar tuned an octave lower. The heavy gauge strings generate a large string tension, yet the guitar is built relatively lightly. Musicians began to adopt the bajo sexto in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> in the 1920s with the rise of "<a href="/wiki/Tejano_music" title="Tejano music">Tex-Mex</a>" music, and it remains in common use for parts that would be played by the <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a> in traditional <a href="/wiki/American_popular_music" title="American popular music">American popular music</a>. The tuning of these instruments is (capital letters are an octave lower than small letters): </p> <dl><dd>Baja sexto: Ee Aa Dd Gg Cc Ff</dd> <dd>Bajo sexto: Ee Aa Dd Gg Bb ee <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></dd></dl> <p>Other Latin American acoustic bass guitars exist as well, such as the <a href="/wiki/Bordonua" title="Bordonua">Bordonua</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Acoustic_bass_guitar&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ashton_ABG.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Ashton Acoustic Bass"><img alt="Ashton Acoustic Bass" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashton_ABG.JPG/120px-Ashton_ABG.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashton_ABG.JPG/180px-Ashton_ABG.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ashton_ABG.JPG/240px-Ashton_ABG.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ashton Acoustic Bass</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ibanez_AEB5E_Acoustic_Bass_2_20100730.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ibanez Acoustic Bass"><img alt="Ibanez Acoustic Bass" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Ibanez_AEB5E_Acoustic_Bass_2_20100730.jpg/90px-Ibanez_AEB5E_Acoustic_Bass_2_20100730.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Ibanez_AEB5E_Acoustic_Bass_2_20100730.jpg/135px-Ibanez_AEB5E_Acoustic_Bass_2_20100730.jpg 1.5x, 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