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"Union Jack" 500/1 Violin bass (serial no. UJ001)
2012
Höfner Gmbh & Co.
Höfner built this left-handed "violin" bass for Paul McCartney, a career-long Höfner artist, on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebration concert in 2012. The instrument's Union Jack design pays tribute to not only the queen but also the legacy of the 1960s British Invasion, a transatlantic movement in which British musicians influenced by American pop brought their own music to the United States. McCartney used this bass to perform the concert's closing number, the Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," joined onstage by the celebration's other performers. |