{"product_id":"1980-ibanez-musician-mc940-fretless-vintage-neck-thru-bass-dark-stain-mc924-japan","title":"1983 Ibanez Musician MC940 Fretless Vintage Neck Thru Bass Dark Stain, MC924, Japan","description":"Up for sale, a 1983 Ibanez Musician MC940 vintage fretless electric bass in excellent, 100% original condition and perfect working order. Built from 1979-1987, the Ibanez Musician basses were known for their use by artists ranging from Sting of The Police and Adam Clayton of U2, to John McVie of Fleetwood Mac.Essentially a fretless version of the MC924, the MC940 features a full 34\" scale length and neck through body design, with a neck comprising three pieces of maple reinforced with strips of walnut. The dark stained ash body wings sandwich a core of mahogany for a very complex and rich tone. Weighing 9lbs, 6oz, the bass has healthy natural sustain with thick low end, offering both ample growl and broad thump. The slab ebony fretboard ensures ideal note attack and treble articulation, and the commanding, detailed natural properties of this bass translate well through the pickups. The Super P5 pickup is an ideally placed split coil humbucker with a big burly sound, subtle growl, and tons of fullness. The J5 bridge pickup in contrast offers more attack and top end cut. The bass is strung with D'addario Chromes 45-105 flatwound strings, professionally setup here at Mike \u0026amp; Mike's Guitar Bar.The slender C-shaped profile cave has just enough roundness in the shoulders, measuring .820\" deep at the nut and .935” at the octave. The unlined thick slab ebony fretboard boasts a two octave range with offset small dot position markers, and the neck is straight with a responsive, optimally adjusted truss rod. The carved bone nut measures 1 9\/16\" in width. The headstock features a dark stained ash veneer to match the body, along with the original gold \"Musician\" truss rod cover and VelveTune B II gold tuning machines that, as the name would suggest, turn very smoothly and hold pitch well, exhibiting light surface patina. The A83-prefix serial is intact on the back of the headstock, translating to January of 1983.The electronics work exactly as intended and are 100% stock, with both pickups wired to a center detent Blend knob that provides a smooth gradient between the two pickups as well as a Master Volume, passive Tone knob, and Treble, Mid, and Bass knobs. A mini toggle switch activates the active preamp\/three-band EQ. Hardware includes the heavy duty top-loader gold-plated bridge, and all of the original knobs are intact.The gloss finish is abbreviated as \"DS\" in the Ibanez catalog for Dark Stain, and cosmetic wear is limited to some scattered dings on the body perimeter and a few additional minor marks and light finish scratches on the back, largely clustered on the edge of the belly carve. The neck retains its smooth ambered gloss on the profile, with just a touch of finish chipping along the treble-side walnut stringer behind “fret” 2.A vintage Japanese faux leather gigbag is included.","brand":"Ibanez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42365730128128,"sku":"A830898","price":1649.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/4437\/4714\/products\/medium_f5ff6a8f-3973-4a9c-a20e-6876d3dccba1.jpg?v=1751537081","url":"https:\/\/mmguitarbar.com\/products\/1980-ibanez-musician-mc940-fretless-vintage-neck-thru-bass-dark-stain-mc924-japan","provider":"Mike \u0026 Mike's Guitar Bar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}