{"id":648,"date":"2014-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&p=648"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:56","slug":"bass-of-the-week-neubauer-guitars-snow-owl-mazinger-contrabass-guitar","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-neubauer-guitars-snow-owl-mazinger-contrabass-guitar","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Neubauer Guitars Snow Owl Mazinger Contrabass Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NeubauerWe interviewed bassist Snow Owl<\/a> earlier this year, and his playing astounded me. His Neubauer custom six-string bass caught my attention, too, so we\u2019re featuring it as the bass of the week. <\/p>\n

The Neubauer Guitars Snow Owl Mazinger contrabass guitar is built with neck-through construction featuring a laminated five-piece maple\/wenge neck and a wenge fingerboard. Neubauer makes the neck unique with a scarf joint that meets beyond the headstock for a solid block of wenge. Besides an extended 36-inch scale, the bass\u2019s headstock design allows for the B-string to be strung to the furthest tuner. The front of the headstock has an olive wood veneer and is inlaid with a mother of pearl Snow Owl logo.<\/p>\n

Its body wings are ash topped with olive and finished in an acrylic satin. The bass\u2019s beautiful wood design is mimicked in the pickup ramp, which houses a custom made single coil pickup by Harry H\u00e4ussel. The pickup is run straight out of the bass without even as much as a volume control. Hardware includes a Hipshot A Style brass bridge with 3\/4-inch spacing and Hipshot tuners.<\/p>\n

Snow Owl has a pair of Neubauer basses he uses, but you can hear this bass on his album The Art of Contrabass Guitar<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n

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We interviewed bassist Snow Owl earlier this year, and his playing astounded me. His Neubauer custom six-string bass caught my attention, too, so we\u2019re featuring it as the bass of the week. The Neubauer Guitars\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2005,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-648","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/648","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\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}