What is this bass???

[Alanko]

I've been listening to the band Curved Air a lot recently. Admittedly I don't like the following song, but I have been trying to work out what the bass is!



To get around the dodgy visuals, I inverted the colours.




It looks a bit like an EB-3, only with two identical single coils, a two-piece bridge, and a split diamond headstock inlay. I don't think it is a Gibson. It looks like a Greco headstock, but I can't tie it to any of their models. It also says 'Framus' to me, but again I can't pin it down to a specific model.

[Dave W]

I don't think it's a Framus or a Greco.

[Alanko]

The Framus angle was the right angle. 

I went with Framus because I saw a Framus EB-3 copy kicking around online, with a full 'batwing' SG pickguard and some sort of replacement pickup in the bridge location. Or possibly two different pickup types for the design.

In turn I think my mystery bass may be an S-375. It took a lot of Google cross-referencing to get there, as there is no single source of info on Framus basses:



Catalog view has the split diamond headstock inlay.

[Dave W]

You must be right. I had never seen a Framus with that configuration or headstock inlay. They were never that common over here.

[westen44]

Not common in the U.S., although Jaco briefly played a Framus S-380 in Germany.

https://equipboard.com/pros/jaco-pastorius/framus-s-380

[Chris P.]

It also looks a bit like the German Hopf on which Lemmy started his career.

[Dave W]

It also looks a bit like the German Hopf on which Lemmy started his career.

It does, but this one looks fancier and more refined to me.

[Pekka]

Although nobody asked but bassist is definitely Mike Wedgwood. He later replaced John G. Perry in Caravan.

[uwe]

Framus - no doubt. Pick-ups give it away, I have the same ones on another Framus model, the Sorento hollowbody.



Those pups are quite forceful btw.