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Re: Paul Tutmarc's Audiovox 736 Bass -- what scale?
« Reply #30 on: August 17, 2013, 08:10:38 PM »
Ok just found this photo at http://ifphc.org
The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center website.

Credits are: 1936
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DESCRIPTION: TUTMARC FAMILY WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. L-R: LORRAINE (PLAYING AUDIOVOX #736 ELECTRONICBASS), PAUL H., SR., JEANNE, AND PAUL H. BUD TUTMARC, JR.

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Re: Paul Tutmarc's Audiovox 736 Bass -- what scale?
« Reply #31 on: August 17, 2013, 08:25:27 PM »
Ok just found this photo at http://ifphc.org
The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center website.

Credits are: 1936
Description:
DESCRIPTION: TUTMARC FAMILY WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. L-R: LORRAINE (PLAYING AUDIOVOX #736 ELECTRONICBASS), PAUL H., SR., JEANNE, AND PAUL H. BUD TUTMARC, JR.


So does this mean the first electric bass player was Lorraine Tutmarc?! I must tell Carol Kaye!

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Re: Paul Tutmarc's Audiovox 736 Bass -- what scale?
« Reply #32 on: August 17, 2013, 09:24:21 PM »
So does this mean the first electric bass player was Lorraine Tutmarc?! I must tell Carol Kaye!


Could be, but Bud (Paul Jr.) could be first, we know he was playing one in high school in the mid-30s because apparently there's at least one photo in his yearbook showing him playing it.

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Re: Paul Tutmarc's Audiovox 736 Bass -- what scale?
« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2018, 05:55:04 AM »
I was going to post the link to an eBay auction for one of these but I see it's already done.

Here's a rare change to merge threads on the Audiovox 736!
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