Yamaha TRB5 Electric Bass

Thank you for reading this review. If you are a serious bass player with a little spare cash to spend, please read this review carefully, because I can almost guarantee you that you will never play another guitar quite like this one. Introducing the Yamaha TRB5II. Two words describe this guitar. HOLY PANTS. This guitar is what jazz is all about. Sporting the hefty yet relatively peanuts £869 RRP price tag, this guitar is THE best bass guitar I have EVER gotten my little mittens on. Enough laying down the absolute praise, let's get down to business. I bought this guitar for about £850 from my ... more

I’ve been playing Bass Guitar now for half my life, and decided that my lonely Hohner Fretless was getting a little lonely, a little worn and a Little out of date. I decided to treat myself to something new, a bit bolder, a bit flashier and with frets. I stepped into my local independent guitar shop and I had only started looking round the shop when this guitar struck me out of the blue, as the most beautiful 5 set of strings I had ever seen. Needless to say it is now mine. The guitar I’m talking about is the Yamaha TRB5, and what a superb use of wood it is. I’d always been a ... more

I had been playing a bog-standard 4 string squier p-bass for 3 years when I thought it was time for an upgrade. Listening to the likes of Jaco Pastorius I was inspired by the sound of the fretless bass. It was then I started my search for a fretless with my budget being under £600 (a replica Jaco bass being over £1000). I was advised by a session bass player to buy a bass with a large fret board as I had quite long fingers. He told me yamaha have high quality fretless basses at my budget. I searched on the internet for the ideal bass and I came across the Yamaha TRB1005F, made with quality ... more