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In response to Mike Barnham’s letter on the ‘click’ bass on Bert Kaempfert’s recordings [GM378], although you can get an approximation on, say, a Jazz Bass, I am fairly sure that it was a Fender Bass VI on the recordings, usually played – I did a version of it recently and fiddled with the tone controls on the Bass VI to get a sound that resembled the clicky bass sound. Hope that helps.

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