There are humbuckers and single coil pickups. There are mahogany, maple and alder bodies. Models with set-necks, bolt-on necks, and through-body necks. There are long scale and short scale basses. As a result, there is significant variation across the range of basses Gibson created, in looks, build, electronics, and ultimately sound. Unlike Fender, who produced just a few bass models, but continuously over 50 years ( Fender Precision, Fender Jazz bass), Gibson was continually creating new bass models, most with relatively short production periods. So the Gibson bass was shaped, and finished like an upright, and with an extendable pole at the bass so it could even be played upright. The fact that they made a solid-body bass at all in this climate is surprising, but Fender solid body sales were sufficiently high to make Gibson take notice. Their view was that guitars should be large jazz boxes, and the bass should be upright and acoustic solid body instruments were for Fender, not Gibson. This was very much in the ethos of Gibson at the time. Gibson have been producing bass guitars since 1953, starting with the violin-shaped EB bass.
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