Music Man StingRay 5

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Introduced in 1987, the StingRay 5 was the first all-new Music Man bass designed and built in San Luis Obispo by the Ernie Ball team. The 5-string's styling is based on the classic look of the Silhouette guitar. Advanced active electronics combine the best of the 4-string StingRay along with new innovations from Music Man designers, such as a ceramic humbucking pickup with a hum-cancelling "phantom" coil for noise reduction and 3-way pickup selector for series and parallel combinations. The tuners are placed in a 4+1 configuration and the 6-bolt on maple neck has a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 22 high-profile wide frets. Also available with an optional piezo bridge pickup and as a lined - or unlined - fretless with a pao ferro fingerboard.

In 2005 the StingRay 5 has been updated with two humbuckers or a bridge humbucker paired with a neck single-coil pickup and a 5-way pickup switching system.