Bass Beat was a brand name used by an Australian company that
imported bass guitars from
There were two different logos. Bass Beat
and there was Bass Beat Two. It’s not known what the differentness between the
two brands were.
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Model ?? (Bass Beat) |
Model 1902 (Bass Beast Two) |
Brand |
Model |
Catalogue
Number |
Years
Supplied |
Equivalent
Teisco Model |
Bass Beat |
? |
? |
? |
NB-4 / EB-200 |
Bass Beat Two |
1902 |
? |
1966 |
NB-4 / EB-200 |
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Bass Beat bass guitars were manufactured by Teisco Co. Ltd. A sticker with a model number, were placed on
the neck plate. The numbers used were not the standard Teisco model numbers as per Teisco guitars.
It appears that Teisco did use custom numbers for specific clients, at various
at times.
The guitars have been documented being sold in 1966 at:
Yamaha Music Centre
Camberwell
It was written on a Japanese web page that Yamaha’s first solid
bodies were purchased from Teisco until they could get there own electric
guitar factory stated. Yamaha was already established making acoustics and
wanted to get into the electric solid body market. This was only for one year.
This could explain why Yamaha Music Centre stocked these models. However none
of this has been confirm from a reliable source.
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