The story
In 1992, Heiko Hoepfinger started his first experiments to build a bass of a special mixed synthetic resin which he called "Tunable Mixed Composite". In late 1993 the first well-functioning instrument had been built, and the first public appearance of BassLab was at the Frankfurt Musikmesse (Germany) in 2001. Since then, BassLab has been represented at several trade shows and has been introduced in different international magazines. Although BassLab sells instruments all over the world, the instrument are hand-crafted in the point of origin. Today there are four basic bass models and three guitar models. BassLab also builds sticks for Emmett Chapman, violas for Ned Steinberger, and electronics in cooperation with Richter Electronics.
On June 10, 2026, Heiko Höpfinger, bass builder and the creative mind behind BassLab, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in Kassel, Germany, at the age of 60.
From Wikipedia’s article on BassLab, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3