![]() ![]() ![]() Vintage Coronados have crept up in value, and now Fender has added this dual-pickup Coronado II to its Modern Player Series. But despite their quirks-or maybe because of them-they have since been embraced by left-of-center rockers like Graham Coxon of Blur and Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo. The Coronado excels at smoothly fingerpicked country-and-western and twangy rockabilly.Ĭoronados were discontinued in 1972. Meanwhile, most jazz guitarists viewed the bolt-on assembly as inferior (though jazz/R&B great Phil Upchurch was a Coronado endorser and made good use of its bouncy, elastic vibrato.) They were also-at least relative to Fender’s other successes-a commercial flop.The instruments were prone to squealing at high volumes, which discouraged rock guitarists from playing them. ![]() Roger Rossmeisl, a luthier previously associated with Gibson and Rickenbacker, designed the series, which featured single- and dual-pickup guitars (with and without tremolo) arms, a 12-string, and a bass.Ĭoronados were strange mash-ups-fully hollow guitars with bolt-on necks, Fender-style headstocks, and DeArmond pickups. The arrival of a shiny red guitar is always exciting-especially when it’s a reissue of long-neglected model that’s become increasingly interesting to players and collectors: Fender’s thinline Coronado II.įender first offered Coronado hollowbody models in 1966 in response to the Grestch and Epiphone guitars whose popularity surged thanks to the Beatles and other British Invasion acts. ![]()
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