For more on Macca’s relationship with the violin bass, check out our history of Paul McCartney and the Höfner 500/1 bass guitar.

Was the Höfner violin bass, which had accompanied Paul McCartney and the Beatles to worldwide fame, tucked away in a private collection? Had it been secretly shipped to a wealthy fan in Japan?

"The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved." McCartney bought the guitar, a left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, in Hamburg, Germany ...

A global search is underway to find a bass guitar that once belonged to Paul McCartney and featured in several iconic early Beatles songs including “Twist And Shout,” “Love Me Do” and ...

Paul McCartney is “incredibly grateful” after ... “For about £30 ($37), I found this Höfner violin bass,” McCartney said previously, according to The Guardian. “And to me, because ...

In the years leading up to Beatlemania, Paul McCartney bought his “favourite ... “For about £30, I found this Höfner violin bass,” said McCarney (81). “And to me, because I was ...

Höfner bass expert Nick Wass has teamed up with two investigative journalists in an effort to reunite Paul McCartney with his long lost Höfner 500/1 violin bass – an instrument that has been ...

"The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved." McCartney bought the guitar, a left-handed Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass, in Hamburg, Germany ...

Donation Options Search Search Search In this photo released by The Lost Bass Project, Nick Wass, an executive with Hoefner, inspects Paul McCartney’s 1961 violin-shaped Hoefner bass ...

Paul McCartney performs during his ‘Got ... word spread last year about the search for the missing 1961 violin-shaped Hofner bass. McCartney’s website said Thursday that the instrument was ...