Anyone ever heard of these?
I was watching a (fantastic) Dizzy Miss Lizzy concert and their bass player is playing a green (lefty) Fano bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Yyck242hY
Made me curious. So I googled the name and found the Fano website
http://www.fanoguitars.com
Here's a video from the 2012 NAMM about the bass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQlldYxRIo
EDIT: I see it was discussed earlier here: http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=7184.msg114541#msg114541
That headstock reminds me of cut-away side on the old Ovation solid-body instruments, but I can't find a photo of one at the moment.
It does have that kind of cut in common with the new Starcasters.
Nice touch, IMO.
i sa quite a lot of Fano guitars in The Netherlands, in shops and on stage, but not many basses. Only on the NAMM show.
This one looks pretty cool... aside from the relic job and tbe bolt on neck.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fano-Alt-de-Facto-GF4-Driftwood-w-Bakelite-Pickguard-Medium-Distress-/131617597807?hash=item1ea505296f
Who in a right mind is going to pay 4000 dollar for such an instrument?
That pickguard looks like a leftover piece of plastic they screwed onto the bassfor the time being.
Quote from: Pilgrim on December 19, 2015, 10:03:48 AM
That headstock reminds me of cut-away side on the old Ovation solid-body instruments, but I can't find a photo of one at the moment.
It does have that kind of cut in common with the new Starcasters.
Nice touch, IMO.
I thought the same thing! It was the Ovation "Utlra" series in the 80s that had that headstock...
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/B~gAAOSwNSxVd6EK/$_1.JPG)
Quote from: Basvarken on December 20, 2015, 02:33:49 PM
Who in a right mind is going to pay 4000 dollar for such an instrument?
That pickguard looks like a leftover piece of plastic they screwed onto the bassfor the time being.
The same people who pay as much or more for Fender Custom Shop relics?
Oh, yeah, the price on the white hollowbody is insane (for that much, or a tad more, I'd get a vintage LP Sig; a Midtown costs just less then half that new and not banged up - purposefully or otherwise) - was just saying it looked like an interesting one; I'd take it down off the rack and plug'r in.
Quote from: chromium on December 20, 2015, 05:01:54 PM
I thought the same thing! It was the Ovation "Utlra" series in the 80s that had that headstock...
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/B~gAAOSwNSxVd6EK/$_1.JPG)
Thank you. I spent 10 minutes looking for a photo of that headstock and couldn't find it. I bow to your Google skills!
Is the Fenderbird enjoying a Renaissance at the moment?
It's an evergreen here and nowhere else.
Quote from: uwe on December 21, 2015, 12:37:36 PM
It's an evergreen here and nowhere else.
It's definitely not just here. The roots of the evergreen may be here, but the pine cones have spread their seeds.
Who wants a mock-T-Bird with an alder body? Once you leave the maho behind not only for the neck, but also for the body and skip the set neck/neck-thru construction you are very remote from what a TBird is and what it can do. Bit like a neck-thru Telecaster-shape guitar with a wenge neck and a bubinga body ...
Quote from: uwe on December 28, 2015, 11:31:57 AM
... Bit like a neck-thru Telecaster-shape guitar with a wenge neck and a bubinga body ...
Don't give Hans Peter Wilfer any ideas!
True, it sounds like something (the new, resurrected) Framus would come up with!