{"id":471,"date":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&#038;p=471"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:50","slug":"bass-of-the-week-novacorda-barbaros","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-novacorda-barbaros","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Novacorda Barbaros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Novacorda-Barbaros-Bass.jpg?resize=960%2C364\" alt=\"Novacorda Barbaros Bass\" width=\"960\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53828 img-fluid\"><\/p>\n<p>Novacorda\u2019s Barbaros bass is a design that\u2019s nearly five hundred years old. Well, at least that\u2019s where the inspiration came from. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bass guitar was named after Barbaros Hayreddin Pa?a who was an Ottoman admiral of Sultan S\u00fcleyman\u2018s fleet,\u201d the Novacorda website explains. \u201cThe design of the bass is based on the cross-section of one of his 16th-century warships of which we found construction plans in a Danish Archive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gorgeous four-stringer is built with a stunning birch body and one-piece walnut top. Luthier Mete Cem Kuzu also utilizes walnut along with odum for the neck. Its ironwood fingerboard has dot inlays for fret markers. \u201cBarbaros impresses due to his amazing sound guaranteed by 2 pickups hand-wound by ERS Guitar Pickups,\u201d Kuzu writes. \u201cHe is the cool guy everybody wants to hang out with.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-wrap\">\n<div class=\"carousel-gallery carousel-sync-main\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Novacorda-Barbaros-Bass-Body.jpg?fit=960%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Novacorda-Barbaros-Bass-Top-Closeup.jpg?fit=960%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Novacorda-Barbaros-Bass-Body-Back.jpg?fit=960%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-main -->    <\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-nav\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-nav -->  <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-wrap --><\/div>\n<p><!-- .section --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novacorda\u2019s Barbaros bass is a design that\u2019s nearly five hundred years old. Well, at least that\u2019s where the inspiration came from. \u201cThe bass guitar was named after Barbaros Hayreddin Pa?a who was an Ottoman admiral\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1682,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-471","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}