By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London No one seemed to know what had happened to one of the most important bass guitars in music history, though in the decades since it went missing there had ...

By Isabella Kwai Reporting from London Before Beatlemania, there was the distinctive Höfner violin bass — the first guitar that Paul McCartney bought after becoming the bassist for the Beatles.

He has collaborated extensively with McCartney and written a book about the missing Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass. Wass told the BBC that the famous Beatle asked him about the guitar during a recent ...