Franz Hoffmann™ Prelude Bass Outfit - 1/4 Size French

The Franz Hoffmann™ Prelude Bass: Opening New Worlds for Young Musicians.

With its superior construction and materials, the Franz Hoffmann Prelude™ bass gives students more room to grow and progress.

When a student starts out on a cello of lesser quality, it's easy for them to get discouraged early, to blame themselves for problems that are actually caused by the instrument itself. Franz Hoffmann™ Prelude basses are some of the finest beginner basses for sale online, and are even a cut above Hoffmann’s own entry-level Amadeus line. This Shar-exclusive outfit is also packed with cool bass accessories, assembled to provide everything a bass student needs to progress on their path to musical excellence.

Every Amadeus bass is outfitted with D’Addario Helicore steel core strings, which provide a brilliant tonal quality that allows the player to hear intonation with greater ease while also being more stable and easy to tune.

Professionally set up at our workshop in Beijing, then inspected, fine-tuned, and shop-adjusted at our home facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan, we at Shar strive to ensure that each Prelude bass is among the best basses for beginners for sale. Each instrument is a high-quality laminate construction featuring geared pegs, an ebony fingerboard, a hand carved bridge with low-friction height adjusters, a durable nitro varnish, and a composite endpin.

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Beginnings are critical. That is why we are committed to offering the best student instruments to beginning players. We believe this commitment is why Hoffmann instruments have become so popular with teachers, schools, parents, and beginning students of all ages.

We designed Franz Hoffmann instruments to give you the absolute best student violins, violas, cellos, and basses available on the market today. The consistent quality in materials, construction, playability, tone, and visual appeal make them a great value for every beginning string student.

Working closely with workshops, we have carefully designed and crafted each Franz Hoffmann instrument to ensure our specifications are met. These instruments are then sent to our Ann Arbor workshop to receive final adjustments assuring easy playability and polished looks.