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Sting’s 8-String Hamer Explorer Fretless Bass

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Sting’s 8-String Hamer Explorer Fretless bass featured in The Police video for “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” and played live on a few occasions.

8-string basses are typically strung with four pairs of strings, each in the pair a different gauge, set close together and typically played together. The top string of each pair is a light gauge string strung an octave up from the main normal gauge bass string of the pair, creating an octave and chorus effect when played together. Though this is the typical setup, other alternate setups exist including using the heavier gauge bass string as the top string of the pair, with the light gauge string below it.

Read our exclusive interview with designer Jol Dantzig about the build process and details of this amazing fretless bass here.

Sting 8-string fretless Hamer bass. Photo by Jol Dantzig
Sting 8-string fretless Hamer bass. Photo by Jol Dantzig

Sting Hamer 8-sting fretless bass

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Closeup of Sting’s Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass live (click to enlarge) – showing 8 strings
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Closeup of Sting’s Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass live (click to enlarge) – showing 8 tuning pegs

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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass live with The Police (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass live (click to enlarge)
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Sting’s Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass backstage with his Red fretless Fender P bass and his custom upright bass named “Brian” (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass in The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta “De Do Do Do” video (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass in The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta “De Do Do Do” video (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass in The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta “De Do Do Do” video (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass in The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta “De Do Do Do” video (click to enlarge)
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Sting playing his Hamer Explorer 8-string fretless bass in The Police’s Zenyatta Mondatta “De Do Do Do” video (click to enlarge)

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