CORT BASS GUITAR STEINBERGER SERIES
The body was shaped more like an arrow or mini-A than the rectangular L series body.
P-series guitars and basses featured a smaller wooden body with bolt-on composite neck.The TransTrem provided the functionality of a capo in addition to vibrato effects. Steinberger was and still is proud of this dichotomy and one of their slogans was "We don't make 'em like they used to."Īnother innovation created by Ned Steinberger for some of these instruments was the TransTrem, a patented (now long lapsed) transposing vibrato assembly that proportionally adjusted the string tensions to enable immediate accurate retuning of the instrument with the transposing vibrato lever. Depending upon the preferences of the listener, this was either a good thing, as it made the instrument sonically clean, or a bad thing, as it made the instrument sound synthetic and unnatural. The all-synthetic construction gave a very smooth sound and feel, immediate note attack, and very even tonal response. The rationale for the overall design was the elimination of unnecessary weight, especially the unbalanced headstock, and the use of modern materials, such as graphite, for their advantages over wood. Depending on the tailpiece, calibrated or uncalibrated double-ball end strings were used, with the former required in order to use the transposing feature of the TransTrem vibrato unit. The tuners utilized a finer than normal 18:1 gear ratio, with 40 threads per inch, which gave slower but more precise adjustment and helped reduce string slippage. The headstock was eliminated, the tuning hardware instead installed on a tailpiece mounted to the face of the guitar body. Initially produced as an electric bass and later as a guitar, the instrument was made entirely of the Steinberger Blend, a "proprietary" graphite and carbon-fiber mix in two pieces: the main body and a faceplate (the "blend" being an off-the-shelf carbon fiber "system" from the DuPont product line). The best-known Steinberger design is the L-series instrument, sometimes described as shaped like a broom, boat oar, or cricket bat.
Fredrik Saroea of Datarock playing a white headless Steinberger guitar
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