And if you want to know which tracks Paul played the Hofner violin bass on (answer: all of them --- okay, not really, but just about).
The Beatles recorded 212 album tracks from 1962-1970 (187 originals and 25 covers). This does exclude outtakes and all, but those run the gamut from mainly '65-'69; over the operational lifetime of several basses (not to say that they were beat after that; they were just used during very discrete periods with the Beatles).
Most of these tracks had bass parts, but not all (Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, Revolution 9, Julia and Mother Nature's Son are examples off the top of my head). The, there were tracks such as
Hey Jude, on which George played the Fender Bass VI and
Let it Be, on which John played Fender Jazz bass. Let's say, for the sake of argument (we love those!), that 200 had McCartney bass tracks.
From
Please Please Me through
Help! (I'm including singles and EPs in these ranges), McCartney used a Hofner "violin bass" exclusively (he had two; a '61 and a '63 that differed mainly by pickup placement). They cut 85 album tracks in this period.
On
Rubber Soul, McCartney used the Hofner on perhaps half the tracks, so there's 8 more for the Hofner. His Rickenbacker 4001S was used on the rest (say 7 tracks). From
Revolver through
Magical Mystery Tour, he used the Rick exclusively except perhaps for
Paperback Writer and Rain, on which it has been hypothesized that he used a Nu-Sonic bass. Still, not a Hofner. During the
Revolver -
Mystery Tour period, they cut 63 album tracks.
On the White Album, McCartney used a fiar bit of Fender Jazz bass as well as his Rick. Let's say that 25 of these had Paul on bass on a non-Hofner. THat put's us at the end of 1968 in a dead heat:
85 on Hofner, 85 not on Hofner.
On to
Let it Be, where we'll assume Paul used the Hofner on 9 of 11 tracks (John played bass on the title track and
The Long and Winding Road is a real ?). On the final 20 tracks, we need to leave out
Her Majesty, so let's divide the track up to 8 Hofner and 11 Rick.
That's a final tally of 102 tracks with Hofner and 96 on The Rick 4001S, Fender Jazz and Nu-Sonic. Just working off the top of my head (except for the total number of album cuts), that gets me to 198. Not too bad considering my initial estimate of 200.
So, to quote Bill Clinton: "Define just about all." ;)