Basses
Check out the line of bass guitars that Jim Laabs Music carries!.
Fender
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is the world’s leading guitar manufacturer, and its name has become synonymous with all things rock ‘n’ roll. Iconic Fender instruments such as the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass, and Jazz Bass guitars are known worldwide as the instruments that started the rock revolution, and they continue to be highly prized by today’s musicians and collectors.
Godin
Godin started building guitars over twenty years ago in a village in Quebec Canada called La Patrie. The man that started it all is Robert Godin. Robert still owns the company and he continues to design the vast majority of their guitars.
Epiphone
The history of Epiphone started in 1873, in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey), where Greek founder Anastasios Stathopoulos made his own fiddles and lutes (oud, laouto). Stathopoulos moved to the United States of America in 1903, and continued to make his original instruments, as well as mandolins, from Long Island City in Queens, New York. Anastasios died in 1915, and his son, Epaminondas, took over. After two years, the company was known as The House Of Stathopoulos. Just after the end of World War I, the company started to make banjos. The company produced its Recording Line of Banjos in 1924, and, four years later, took on the name of the “Epiphone Banjo Company”. They produced their first guitars in 1928.
Ernie Ball Music Man
Music Man is recognized as the benchmark of modern bass guitar design and manufacturing since introducing the Stingray bass in 1976. Music Man was founded by Leo Fender, Forrest White and Tom Walker in 1972, and acquired in 1984 by Ernie Ball Inc.
Sterling by Music Man
Sterling by Music Man is the newest member of the Music Man Family. This official brand incorporates the classic design elements of Ernie Ball Music Man® guitars and basses. Introduced by Music Man at the 2009 Winter NAMM Convention, the new line is dedicated to meeting the demands of guitarists and bassists looking for the quality they have come to expect from the Music Man family.
Peavey
Hartley Peavey founded Peavey Electronics in 1965 after building his first amplifier in 1957. Since its foundation, Peavey Electronics has been privately owned, and has grown massively from their humble beginnings in Hartley’s basement in the 1950s.
