Gretsch 6071 Bass ( Monkees Style Peter Tork ) 1968 Brown Mahogany

This Bass is in very good working order and was rarely used.
All controls work and original.
Felt on muffler was replaced.
Body in very good condition with a few minor surface scratches on the back.
Binding has some minor flaking.
This is a 30" scale.
I consider this to be in very good condition especially considering its age ( made March, 1968 ).
The guitar has been in a clean and smoke free enviromment.
The bass will include a soft gig bag.

Gretsch introduced a far more conventional—and far more successful—bass guitar in 1962. The 6070 bass model was far superior in every way to the short-lived Bikini, with a standard long scale bass and a hollow double-cutaway body based on the elegant and popular Country Gentleman guitar (it was often referred to as the “Country Gentleman Bass”).

The 6070 was a high-quality bass, with a single Filter’Tron bass pickup placed near the bridge, 2” body depth, upper-bout three-position tone switch, lower-bout mute switch, bound f holes, dual finger rests, four-string Space Control bridge and “G” cutout tailpiece, built-in string mute, gold hardware, padded back and a massive maple neck with a rather large headstock with two tuners per side. It was available in an amber red finish and had an extendable endpin that allowed the instrument to be played like an upright bass. 1964 revisions included a Super’Tron bass pickup, sunburst finish and removal of the endpin.

1968 Gretsch catalog appearances by the long-scale 6070 and dual-pickup 6072 models, and the short-scale 6071 and dual-pickup 6073 models.

The 6070 bass was a good-sounding and successful instrument (Who bassist John Entwistle played one in a summer 1965 Ready Steady Go! TV appearance), and a dual-Super’Tron-pickup version, the 6072, was introduced in 1964.

Also in 1964, Gretsch introduced two short-scale variations, the single-pickup 6071 and the dual-pickup 6073. These two basses had a single-cutaway Tennessean-type hollow body with simulated f holes, Super’Tron pickups, a decidedly short 29” scale (standard short-scale basses are 30”), thinner necks and elongated four-on-a-side headstocks, four-string Space Control bridges with “G” cutout tailpieces, and gold (later chrome) hardware. The most visible exponent of these two high-quality instruments was Monkees bassist Peter Tork (various sources place the introduction of the 6071 and 6073 models in 1968 rather than 1964, but Tork can clearly be seen playing the dual-pickup 6073 model in the 1966 pilot episode of The Monkees, which was probably filmed in 1965).

The 6070, 6071, 6072 and 6073 remained in the Gretsch lineup until 1972, when all were discontinued.

Details of this guitar.

1. 16” Single cutaway hollow body.

2. Body is 2” thick.

3. Single special design bass pickup (Gretsch).

4. Adjustable 4 string space controllable bridge.

5. Built in “muffler”.

6. Pad on back.

7. Mahogany finish.

8. Painted fake “f holes”

9. Top and bottom thumb rests.

10. Van Gent tuners.

11. Binding around body.

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