It was in the 1930s that an American inventor named Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington created the first guitar-style electric bass. It was fretted and designed to be played horizontally, and could be connected to an amplification device. It was a bass designed as a replacement for the contrabass type, but the invention only had a bit of success and never really caught on. Although it was created to be handled like a guitar and the frets allowed the bassist to play it more easily, it never caught the attention of the public.
In the 1950s, Leo Fender, also an American, created the first mass-produced electric guitar that was very popular. This type of instrument was introduced to meet the demands of musicians and bass players in particular. This was created to be a portable musical instrument that could match the sound and volume of the popular electric guitar and also play accurately, better than fretless acoustic instruments. Fender electric instruments answered all these requirements and quickly gained great popularity among many budding musicians and bassists around the world.
Precision crafted bass instruments became popular and since the guitar is a standard instrument in all bands, many variations of the musical instrument were made, and it even became more popular. Like the electric guitar, the first customers for this precision bass musical instrument were country and western musicians, but other musicians also quickly adopted it and used it in pop, rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, and reggae music. . The electric bass developed by Fender became a widely copied standard of musical bass device types. Many producers make variations of the electric bass musical instrument.
As far as electric guitars go, the bass guitar originally created by Tutmarc in the 1930s and developed by Fender in the 1950s has come a long way. Many variations and versions of these bass devices were developed. Newer versions of these bass devices are already equipped with high-tech and modern electronics that produce extremely loud and powerful bass sounds and tones. Bass sounds can already match the volume of electric guitars, unlike traditional acoustic types where the bass sound is drowned out by loud music from other musical instruments. This electric bass instrument has truly evolved from the traditional bass types to the first electric bass instrument created and the current versions.