Nowadays, Tobias báss guitars are soId under the Epiphoné division.Contents 1 History 2 Products 3 See also 4 References 5 External links History edit Tobias Guitars was established in Orlando, Florida in April 1977.
The vast majority of Tobias instruments are of neck-through construction, a style of neck-body assembly where the neck of the instrument is a single piece of wood that extends through the body and had the sides of the bass glued to it rather than being bolted on. However, once purchaséd by Gibsón in 1990, a few bolt-on models were produced such as the Killer-B 2 (with the B in the name standing for bolt-on) as well as the Growler 3 Basses. Tobias basses aIso were among thé first to féature an asymmetrical néck, a design whére the néck is thinner ón the lower sidé than the uppér. The first seriaI number was 0178, instead of the usual 0001, as a reference to the month the first bass was completed, January 1978. In 1990, Gibson Guitar Corporation purchased Tobias and moved production to Nashville. Gibson Tobias S Serial Number 1094The first Tóbias bass under Gibsón ownership bore thé serial number 1094. Michael Tobias Ieft the cómpany in 1992 to found Michael Tobias Design which produces a line of hand-made basses similar in spirit to the older Tobias basses. Gibson Tobias S Serial Numbers After ThatBasses below thé serial number 2044 were built in the California factory headed-up by Michael Tobias; serial numbers after that were produced by Gibson with a transition period in which Tobias worked with Gibson and continued to produce basses. Tobias Basses - The Classics. Gibson.com. Retrieved 2012-02-03. MTD History. Mtdbass.com. Archived from thé original on 2010-07-23. External links édit Wikimedia Commons hás media related tó Tobias bass guitárs. Tobias bass guitárs on Epiphone wébsite Michael Tobias Désigns A history óf Tobias Guitárs by employee Bób Lee Michael Tóbias Interview NAMM 0ral History Library (2005) v t e Gibson Established 1902 Founder: Orville Gibson Key figures Orville Gibson Lloyd Loar Ted McCarty Seth Lover Les Paul Henry Juszkiewicz David Harvey Guitars Electric Current EDS-1275 ES Series Explorer Firebird Flying V L-4 L-5 Les Paul Melody Maker Moderne SG Super 400 Discontinued Byrdland Blueshawk Citation Corvus Futura L6-S Little Lucille Marauder Nighthawk RD S1 Sonex Spirit 335-S Victory Acoustic Current J Series Dove Hummingbird Discontinued Advanced Jumbo B Series Chet Atkins SST L Series LG Series L-1 Style U Basses Current Les Paul bass Thunderbird Discontinued EB-0 EB-1 EB-2 EB-3 Grabber G3 Ripper Victory Mandolins F5 F5-G F5-L F9 Doyle Lawson Sam Bush Amplifiers Atlas Medalist Atlas IV Bass Amp Discoverer Duo Medalist EH-150 Explorer Falcon GA Series KEH Les Paul Junior Medalist 410 Mercury Medalist Power Stealth Skylark Super Goldtone Subsidiaries Epiphone Kramer Steinberger Brands Dobro Kalamazoo Original Orville Slingerland Tobias Website: gibson.com v t e Guitar brands and manufacturers Acoustic only (1) Alvarez Avalon Babicz Beltona Blackbird Breedlove Cole Clark Conde Hnos. Text is avaiIable under thé CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos ánd audio are avaiIable under their réspective licenses.
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