Vox Bass Guitar
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The Vox Constellation double-cutaway hollow body bass guitar is the later of the two 335-style basses Vox had made by the Giannini guitar company of Italy.
The earlier "Cougar" bass was usually red and had an almost "Gibson-width" 30 1/2" scale neck with Gibson-like 2-on-a-side tuners. The later "Constellation" (as used by Larry Graham with Sly and the Family Stone, and also by John Entwistle during "I can see for Miles", "Happy Jack", etc.) is sunburst, has a very thin, bound mahogany fingerboard maple neck with "Tee-Bar" truss rod, and a very large ovoid-shaped headstock with four "Precision Bass Tuners" on the one up-side.
It has a metal nut and a "zero fret", a floating pickguard, two very aggressive sounding passive pickups, and electronic circuits powered by a nine volt battery for DISTORTION/FUZZ ("Dance to the Music") and TREBLE/BASS BOOST ("Happy Jack", "My Generation") effects and a 440 Hz LC controlled "E-Tuner" circuit which crossfades with the Volume Control knob. There is 1 passive tone control for each pickup.
The tone is quite thunderous even though the pickups are single coil. The tailpiece bail is "Mosrite-Bigsby" type and the machineheads use large-ratio "Fender Bass"-type heads.
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