The church’s orchestra now has about 18 members ranging in age from 9 to 20, playing violin, viola, bass and cello. The ...

Eventually, McCartney bought a Höfner Violin bass guitar. While McCartney was initially reluctant to play bass, he took to it quickly and expertly. He started out rough and rudimentary ...

BEATLES legend Sir Paul McCartney strummed his beloved bass ... the first being the Höfner violin bass which graced so many iconic Beatles records. Stolen more than 50 years ago, now returned ...

McCartney purchased the instrument—a violin-shaped Höfner 500/1 bass guitar—for just £30 in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. The guitar played a central role in the burgeoning Beatlemania ...

LONDON — Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar. A five-year search ... The Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went missing ...

The prized instrument, stolen in 1972, has now been returned to the Beatle. From left, Ringo Starr (playing Ludwig drum kit) and Paul McCartney (playing a Hofner 500/1 violin bass guitar) of ...

The woman who found and returned Paul McCartney ... Lost Bass Project team last year, they discovered that it was instead stolen three years later. The now-recovered Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass ...

LONDON (AP) - Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar ... helped reunite The Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went missing ...

By Associated Press Paul McCartney no longer gently weeps for his original bass guitar ... reunite The Beatles star with the distinctive violin-shaped 1961 electric Höfner that went missing ...