Electric bass
Date1960 - 1962 ca.
Place MadeEl Monte, California, United States, North America
ModelZorko
Serial No.147
SignedZorko [bright star in Czech]MarkingsOn top of scroll: PAT / PEND / 147DescriptionThe Dopyera brothers, whose resonator guitars gave rise to the National and Dobro companies, never stopped creating instruments once they moved on from those organizations. They founded the Zorko Musical Instrument Company to produce electric upright basses made from molded fiberglass with an innovative pickup. The company was sold a few years after it was founded to Ampeg, the famous bass amplifier manufacturer.DimensionsOverall length with endpeg closed: 152 cmProvenancePlayed by donor Wallace E. Gears in “big bands” in place of an acoustic bass until donated to the National Music Museum in 1990.Credit LineGift of Wallace E. Gears, 1990
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