Electric bass

Date: 1960 - 1962 ca.

Place Made:El Monte, California, United States, North America

Model: Zorko

Serial No: 147

SignedZorko [bright star in Czech]

MarkingsOn top of scroll: PAT / PEND / 147

DescriptionThe 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 cm

Terms

Double bass

Credit Line: Gift of Wallace E. Gears, 1990

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Object number: 05056