It was in the 1930s when an American inventor name Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, created the first guitar-style electric bass instrument. It was fretted and designed to be played horizontally, and could be plugged into an amplification device. It was a bass guitar designed as a replacement for the double bass type, but the invention only received a little success and never really picked up. Although it was created to be handled like a guitar and the frets enabled bassist to play it more easily, it never caught up with the public’s attention.
In the 1950s Leo Fender, also an American, created the first mass-produced electric guitar which because hugely popular. This kind of instrument was introduced to meet the demands of musicians and bass players in particular. This was created to be a portable musical instrument that could match the sound and volume of the popular electric guitar and also played with precision, better than the fretless acoustic instruments. Fender’s electric instruments answered all these requirements, and quickly gained extremely huge popularity among many musicians and beginner bass players all over the world.
The precision bass instruments created became popular and since the guitar is a standard instrument in all bands, many variations of the musical instrument were made, and it even became more popular. Just like the electric guitar, the earliest customers for this precision bass musical instrument were the country and western musicians but also quickly adopted by other musicians and used in pop, rock, rhythm and blues, jazz and reggae music. The electric bass developed by Fender became a widely copied standard of the musical bass device types. Many producers are made variations of the electric bass musical instrument.
As far as electric guitars go, the bass guitar originally created by Tutmarc in the 1930s, and developed further by Fender in the 1950s, has gone a long way. Many variations and versions of these bass devices were developed. The newer versions of these bass devices are already equipped with the modern and high technology electronic gadgets that produce extremely loud and powerful bass sounds and tone. The bass sounds can already match the volume of the electric guitars, unlike the traditional acoustic types where the bass sound are drowned by the loud music of the other musical instruments. This electric bass instrument has really evolved from the traditional bass types to the first electric bass instrument created and to the present versions.
