Lakland Music Company Ships Skyline Duck Dunn Signature Bass Guitar
October 2, 2006
Lakland Music Company, a Chicago-based bass guitar manufacturer, now offers a Skyline version of its "Duck Dunn" Signature bass. This bass has a precision style body and an ultra slim jazz style neck.
Lakland has two lines of basses: The "Skyline" series, which is manufactured in Korea, and the U.S. series, which is handcrafted at the factory in Chicago. Though made overseas, each Skyline bass undergoes extensive refinements at the Lakland factory, which includes meticulous inspection of every aspect of the bass and the installation of electronics.
The bass comes with classic features; necks have binding and genuine pearl block inlay and fingerboards are made from Rosewood; bodies are made from Swamp Ash and are painted Candy Apple red. Standard pickups include Lindy Fralin split coil humbuckers, but the bass also can be ordered with Dark Star pickups. (Dark Star is a recreation of the 1960s vintage Hagstrom Bi-sonic pickup used on the Hagstrom Coronado IV, Guild Starfire and M-84 basses.)
Donald "Duck" Dunn, known for his syncopated grooves on classics like Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour," "Knock on Wood" with Otis Redding, and "Time is Tight" by Booker T and the MGs, says it was the effects of the wear and tear of four decades of touring and studio gigs that started his search for an instrument that would make playing easier. For more information, visit their web site at www.lakland.com.
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