As used by Peter Tork of The Monkees

with painted F holes and padded back. This rare twenty-nine inch scale bass (as used by Peter Tork of the Monkees) weighs just 8.60 lbs and has a comfortable nut width of just over 1 5/8 inches. Two Gretsch Super'Tron pickups with clear silver plastic surrounds and balanced outputs of 4.19k and 4.23k. Three volume controls (one master) and three three-way selector switches (one of which is standby), built in adjustable muffler. Space control 'roller' bridge on rosewood base. Gretsch 'G' cutout tailpiece. Two original white plastic thumb rests. Apart from a very small mark on the back of the neck behind the second fret, some insignificant belt buckle scratches, and a few really small marks/dings on the edges, this now rare bass guitar is in near mint condition. Housed in it's original Gretsch dark gray hardshell case with purple padded felt lining. "Gretsch debuted two short-scale basses in 1964. Using a single cutaway Tennessean Electrotone hollowbody as its superstructure the $350, one Super'Tron-equipped Model 6071 and $395 two Super'Tron 6073 utilize a comfortable 29-inch-scale length. The two short-scale models featured gold-plated hardware and a 4-on-a-side, Stratocaster-style headstock with Van Ghent tuners. A narrower, thinner neck than on the long-scale 6070 and 6072 provides greater playing ease. The 6071 has a single volume control, a tone-modifier switch, a standby switch and, later, a single muffler with a flip switch. The two-pickup Model 6073 features three volume controls, a pickup-selector switch, a standby switch and, later in its evolution, a mute. Both models display a "G" cutout tailpiece and space control bridge. In 1967, Gretsch replaced the gold-plated metal parts with chrome-plated hardware. Like their long-scale, double cutaway siblings, the Models6071 and 6073 disappeared in 1972.