“The phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. That’s when I knew we’d found it”: We meet the man who reunited Paul McCartney with his long-lost Beatles bass

Paul McCartney reunited with his missing 1961 Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass.

A news story about a long-lost Höfner bass first appeared in the pages of Bass Guitar Magazine in December 2019, in which Höfner themselves explained: “In the spring of 1961, a young man walked into a music shop in Hamburg, Germany, and purchased his first bass guitar, a Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass.

“He would use this bass to record his band’s first two albums and several number-one hits at Abbey Road recording studios. A young man’s dream came true... He is, of course, Paul McCartney of the Beatles.