Manfred Klose wrote:
Alan@ how would that guitar differ from a "Real parker" ? is it like a squier vs fender issue?
There's that too, but other things too, most of which were all the real innovations behind the Parker. I just posted this over on the Pr0n thread:
They have the piezo (that's what the extra pot is for), but lose the fabulous Parker neck joint and replace it with a relatively chunky bolt-on:
They also have body-side truss adjustment (for heaven's sake, why?), normal nickel silver frets instead of the Parker standard stainless, and lack the composite exoskeleton - basically all the innovations Ken Parker put into the original aside from the piezos.
Also, Ken Parker designed the Parker Flys with the relatively unsexy poplar body and basswood necks because that's what sounded best in combination with the composite exoskeleton. The American Music made Parkers that featured more traditional tonewoods are just bowing to the more traditional market.
