The Epiphone Embassy Deluxe bass, or Epiphone EBDL, was the first long scale electric bass produced by Epiphone, and only the second solid body after the similarly-shaped Epiphone Newport. It launched in 1963, and like the Newport, the Epiphone Embassy Deluxe had the distinctive Epiphone 'batwing' headstock shape.
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, Epiphone instruments were built by Gibson, at the same factory building Les Pauls, 335s, etc in Kalamazoo Michigan. Many Epiphone guitars were directly analagous to broadly similar Gibson models - at least in terms of specification and pricepoint. The Epiphone Embassy Deluxe bass was the Epiphone equivalent to the Gibson Thunderbird IV.
Both the Gibson Thunderbird and Epiphone Embassy Deluxe were launched in 1963, deleted in 1969, and had identical hardware; though the Epiphone lacked the body shape and through-neck of the Thunderbird. They were both long scale basses (also Gibson's first) and both were priced identically ($289.50 in the 1/10/66 price list). Sales of this model and the Thunderbird were poor, 507 Embassies vs 605 Thunderbird IVs over the years 1963-69.
Other than the Embassy Deluxe Special, all 1960s Epiphone solid body guitars and basses had the same body style (almost symmetrical pre-1964, with a shortened lower horn thereafter), they are the Epiphone Crestwood Deluxe, Epiphone Crestwood Custom, Epiphone Wilshire, Epiphone Coronet and Epiphone Olympic guitars, and the Epiphone Newport and Epiphone Embassy Deluxe basses.
In the 1970s the Epiphone (now Japanese manufactured) launched a new bass dubbed Embassy, however with a model number ET280. This was a double pickup instrument with a different body shape, bolt-on neck, shorter 30 1/2" scale, and very different hardware.
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