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Steinberger is an American manufacturer of electric basses and electric guitars. The company was founded in 1979 known for the novel design of an electric bass guitar model, which had no top plate (headless). The tuning knobs of the model are located at the foot of the instrument. The model also has a reduced to a minimum, roughly rectangular-shaped body. This is like the neck of the instrument not from the traditional material of wood but is made of a composite material - made by graphite-reinforced epoxy resin - cast.
By Melanie Bradley
First headless production bass
Designed 1978 -1979
Commercially introduced 1981
Revised 1986
Production life 1981 to date
Launched in 1981, the Steinberger L-2 bass first produced laughs, and then no small amount of awe. Ned Steinberger's reinvention of the bass guitar was the most radical since Leo Fender's invention of the instrument 30 years earlier; it dispensed with the headstock, most of the body, and the traditional guitar-making material-wood. Although radical, this sleek black high tech sculpture made from space age materials won praise from musicians and design journals alike, prompting its inventor to declare 'one day all guitars will be made this way'.
It was not to be. Rather than the conventional guitar changing to represent a Steinberger, the Steinberger instead changed to represent a conventional guitar. But although commercial realities forced Steinberger to compromise his radical design ideals, the concepts he introduced made an inerasable mark on guitar design.
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