Danelectro Electric Bass Guitar
date: label: date made
content: ca 1958
name: label: user
content: Pizzarelli, John "Bucky"
label: maker
content: Danelectro
notes: label: Description
content: This electric bass guitar was made by Danelectro in Red Bank, New Jersey around 1958. Danelectro was founded by Nathan Daniel in 1947 and manufactured amplifiers for Sears, Roebuck and Company and Montgomery Ward. In 1954, the company started producing the Danelectro lines of solid-body electric guitars and amplifiers. Two years later, Danelectro introduced the six-string electric bass. This U-2 model with double pickup sold in a 1956 Danelectro catalog for $100.00
label: Description
content: Jazz guitarist John “Buck” Pizzarelli played this guitar up until the time he donated it to the museum in 2005.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Red Bank
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John "Bucky" Pizzarelli
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0004.02
label: accession number
content: 2006.0004
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0004.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 110.3 cm x 33.7 cm; 43 7/16 in x 13 1/4 in