Fly Bass by Parker Now in Full Production
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Fly Bass 5
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December 23, 2002
When Ken Parker began crafting the Parker
Fly Bass prototype in the summer of 1992, he felt he was creating something
special. "In keeping with the methods of perfection for all of our Parker
instruments, the bass took us a considerable amount of time to get it
exactly the way we wanted," says company founder Ken Parker. "The devil is
in the details, and the painstaking process of perfecting the Fly Bass was a
long one. But from all accounts the bass is an unqualified success with
players."
The first fly Basses shipped in October 2002, filling backorders that began
building in January 2002. Those initial basses sold fast, creating more
backorders at Parker. Now the Fly Bass is in full production and Parker is
beginning to catch up with the increasing demand for the product.
Requests for the bass continued to build throughout the summer as Aerosmith
bassist Tom Hamilton toured the U.S. with a 2001 prototype transparent red
Parker Fly Bass. Throughout the tour, Hamilton relied on the Fly Bass for
half of the show.
With the now familiar yet unique body shape, the ultra-light weight Parker
Bass at just 7 pounds features all of Parker's distinctive attributes. The bass offers a wide tonal range
with two custom-wound DiMarzio Ultra-Jazz pickups and a Fishman active piezo
pickup preamp/mixer system. Available in 4- and 5-string models, the Parker
bass has a quilted maple veneer on the top and back, a layered spruce body,
and a mahogany neck. A carbon-fiber composite fingerboard, stainless steel
frets and Sperzel locking tuners provide the instrument's playability.
Parker has taken proactive steps to continue increased production on the Fly
Bass by streamlining manufacturing on its core guitar models and creating
the Parker Custom Shop to handle special requests from Parker guitar
players.
For more information, visit their web site at www.parkerguitars.com. | 
