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Paul McCartney, a member of the legendary British rock band The Beatles, has launched a worldwide campaign to find a lost bass guitar from 1969.

Paul McCartney's missing bass guitar featured in the 2021 documentary 'Get Back'.
[Photo source=BBC capture]

According to the British BBC on the 4th (local time), this guitar was purchased by McCartney, the Beatles' bassist, pianist, lead vocalist, and songwriter, in 1961 in Hamburg, Germany, for 30 pounds (38 dollars) at the time.

The guitar was used by McCartney to play songs such as "Love Me Do" and "She Loves You," and it reportedly disappeared after the recording of "Get Back" in 1969.

Recently, McCartney asked the guitar manufacturer H?fner to help find this beloved guitar, and the company has launched the "Lost Bass Project" to locate the "H?fner 500/1 Violin Bass Guitar."

Nick Wass, an employee of H?fner leading this project, is in close contact with McCartney and has even published a book about the guitar, aiming to solve what the media calls "the greatest mystery in rock and roll history." Additionally, the couple Scott and Naomi Jones, former BBC journalists, are also assisting in the search for the guitar.

The media reported that within less than 48 hours of the project's launch, hundreds of tips have already been received.

Paul McCartney, a member of the legendary British rock band The Beatles.
[Photo by Universal Music Korea]

McCartney's guitar is said to have several distinctive features.

First, the H?fner logo, which is usually written vertically on the guitar's headstock, is written horizontally on the model McCartney played.

Also, the guitar was painted dark, the original pearl pickguard (a thin plate attached to protect the guitar surface from scratches when playing with a pick) was removed, and two pickups (devices that convert the guitar's mechanical vibrations into electrical signals) were newly mounted on black wooden pieces.

It is unknown how much the guitar would fetch at auction, but John Lennon's lost guitar appeared half a century later and sold for 2.4 million dollars (about 3.17 billion won), and Kurt Cobain's acoustic guitar played at MTV's "Unplugged" concert sold for 6 million dollars (about 7.9 billion won).

The H?fner guitar that defines McCartney's era is expected to be valued even higher, but participants in the guitar search project stated that their work is unrelated to commercial motives.

Jones said, "H?fner is hoping that someone with good intentions will come forward," adding, "The person who has the guitar might not even know what kind of item they own."

He also said, "It would be truly joyful if this guitar someday reveals itself to us."

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