![]() ![]() This catalogue saw the (re-)introduction of the late sixties Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard (see page 69) and the short-lived Hofner Club 70. Selmer were the exclusive United Kingdom distributors of Hofner and Gibson at the time, and this catalogue contains a total of 18 electric guitars, 7 bass guitars, 37 acoustics, and 2 Hawaiian guitars - all produced outside the UK and imported by Selmer, with UK prices included in guineas. Scan of 1968/1969 Selmer guitar catalogue (printed July 1968), showing the entire range of electric and acoustic guitars distributed by the company: guitars by Hofner, Gibson, Selmer and Giannini. ![]() Eventually some new Japanese Vox basses were produced a decade later, such as the Vox Standard and White Shadow although these bore no relation to the models of the 1960s, and although reasonable instruments, are of less interest to vintage Vox collectors. The VG4 was the last bass produced for several years, whilst Vox limped on only producing amplifiers. Guitar production ceased in the UK, and later Italy the only new Vox guitars were of Japanese decent, but these were only available for a short period. The end of the decade, and the end of Vox?Īs the 1960s drew to a close, Vox were in trouble. Most JMI Vox basses had single coil Vox V1 pickups, though later examples had the white plastic covered V2 with exposed polepieces.īill Wyman was one of the earliest bass players to have his own signature model, with the Vox Wyman bass complementing the teardrop Mark III used by bandmate Brian Jones.īasses with built-in electronic effects, but based on older JMI designs, such as the violin-shaped Astro (also favoured by Bill Wyman), the teardrop-shaped Constellation and the Phantom-shaped Delta joined simpler models such as the Panther and Hawk, with less unusual body styles. But the long scale Symphonic and Phantom basses were actually pretty respectable. The entry level models were small and light with no adjustable truss rods and often made from plywood certainly no comparison to the Fender basses available. These were followed themselves by the teardrop-shaped Mark IV popularised by Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. Simple models like the Clubman and the somewhat superior, and heavily Precision-influenced Symphonic bass, were added to the line fairly soon afterwards. JMI were the UK distributor for Fender at the time and when the new Phantom IV was launched in late 1961 it was priced approximately the same as the Fender Precision. The Bassmaster and Contour bass were advertised as early as December 1960. Initially solid-body guitars were produced in the United Kingdom by Vox parent company JMI, certainly as early as 1961, and perhaps earlier. Vox produced bass guitars throughout the 1960s, made in several factories for different markets. ![]()
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