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    ERNIE BALL MUSIC MAN SABRE

    Aug 10, 2020 4 minutes
    REVIEW BY ED MITCHELL.

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    We have to ’fess up here. If we hadn’t eyeballed the headstock of the new for 2020 Sabre, we’d never have guessed it was built by Music Man.

    It’s easy to pick a Music Man StingRay or Axis out of a line-up. The body shapes are a dead giveaway, not to mention the StingRay’s conspicuous control plate. The St Vincent model is too outlandish to go incognito, and the Albert Lee and Steve Lukather signatures couldn’t mask their origins if they hid behind big sunglasses and a Magnum PI moustache.

    The same could be said of the new Sabre’s illustrious if short-lived ancestors. The original Music Man Sabre made its debut in 1978 and was in

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