Live Auction 21929The Mark Knopfler Guitar Collection
PENSA CUSTOM GUITARS BY MAKOTO NOGUCHI, NEW YORK, 2014
Lot 113

PENSA CUSTOM GUITARS BY MAKOTO NOGUCHI, NEW YORK, 2014

A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR, PENSA J4 CUSTOM

Closed31 January 2024

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PENSA CUSTOM GUITARS BY MAKOTO NOGUCHI, NEW YORK, 2014
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR, PENSA J4 CUSTOM
The decal logo, Pensa, CUSTOM, MADE IN U.S.A. at the headstock, the neckplate engraved 0550 / 042514, the body of Korina with a natural finish, together with a Fender hard-shell travel case, spec sheet, polish cloth and adjustment key
Length of back 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.)
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Longtime friend and Manhattan music store owner Rudy Pensa gifted this bass guitar to Mark Knopfler after his show at the Beacon Theatre, New York, on 21 October 2015 as a house instrument for British Grove Studios. Bassist Glenn Worf used the guitar to record the song ‘Good On You Son’ for Knopfler’s 2018 solo studio album Down The Road Wherever.

Knopfler told us: 'I play bass very badly. There’s the wire wound and the flat wound thing. I really enjoyed having a wire wound bass, but also to keep a flat wound bass, because a lot of the records would have flat wound strings on those basses. And then I just had totally impractical things… they’re just beautiful objects. If you know what you’re doing, you can coax really good sounds out of them.'