Trend-setting innovations
The
transportation problems of an upright bass were always an issue even
before an alleviation was presented by Framus with the introduction of
the Star bass. The "Triumph electric bass" or "Triumph bass" was the
unique electric upright with model number 4/60 that represented an
electrified and subject-to-weight-loss-regimen variant to the double
bass. This solid body version of the classical 4-string instrument was
manufactured already in September of 1953 and was one of the few
instruments that remained basically unchanged and could be found in the
Framus catalogs from the seventies. 
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