MUSIC MAN STINGRAY
Oct 31, 2018
3 minutes
WORDS BY STEVE HENDERSON.
The StingRay is a bonafide classic. You’ll hear it booming out the bottom end of every style of contemporary music, because it gets the job done better than anything else. Released in ’76, it immediately became the bass of choice for funk and R’n’B players because of it’s round top end, solid and defined bass, and that sweet mid-range – perfect for the new slapping and popping techniques of the day.
Once the rock and pop guys locked onto it, the StingRay became a universal standard, equal to Fender’s mighty P Bass.
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