Parker Fly Electric Guitar
date: label: Date made
content: 1997
name: label: maker
content: Parker Guitars
notes: label: Description
content: This electric guitar was made by Parker Guitars of Willmington, Massachusetts in 1997. The company began in the early 1990s by luthier, Ken Parker. Parker Fly guitars are unique in their appearance and incorporate a radical new approach to the construction of electric guitars. Ken Parker was co-patentee with Lawrence Fishman on a number of patents for this new style of guitar. In 2003 the company was sold to U.S. Music Corporation in Illinois. This electric guitar is a Fly Classic Model, serial #028017BMH, with four control knobs: master volume, magnetic volume, magnetic tone, and piezo volume and tone, and two toggle switches: magnetic pickup selector and piezo/magnetic pickup selector.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wilmington
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Guitars
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: parkersguitars.com
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ken Parker and Larry Fishman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1997.0299.01
label: accession number
content: 1997.0299
label: catalog number
content: 1997.0299.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: guitar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 cm x 32 cm x 95 cm; 17 11/16 in x 12 5/8 in x 37 3/8 in