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2 unusual facts about Tony Bunn


Tony Bunn

By the age of twenty-two he had toured Europe and played and recorded with several renowned groups, including Sun Ra, Harold Ivory Williams, Michal Urbaniak, Urszula Dudziak, Jean Carne, Chuck Brown, and the legendary Chuck Berry.

In 1977, he conceived and developed the first modern 5-string bass guitar with luthier Paul Reed Smith(Most other sources attribute the first modern 5-string bass to an instrument built in 1976 by Alembic Inc for bassist Jimmy Johnson ).



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