Fodera
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Fodera Basses are comparatively expensive. Fodera instruments are easily identified by an inlaid butterfly on the headstock of most basses. Other notable features include an atypical single-cutaway design, an ash neck and exposed dual-coil pickups with wood covers. Bartolini
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pickups with PJ and JJ configurations are also available on certain models.
The company soon found its products in high demand among professional bassists. Today potential customers face a two-year wait for a Fodera instrument. Still quite rare, less than three thousand Fodera instruments have been created over the past 25 years.
Series include:
Monarch, Emperor, Emperor II, Imperial, Imperial II (formerly known as BeezElite), and NYC.
Fodera also makes "Signature series"-basses, which are based on some of their most notable players personal instruments. Following models are available: Victor Wooten signature Monarch (Classic or YinYang versions), Anthony Jackson Presentation Contrabass, Lincoln Goines signature Imperial, Matthew Garrison signature Imperial, and Tom Kennedy signature Emperor II.
Notable players
- Victor WootenVictor WootenVictor Lemonte Wooten is an American bass player, composer, author, and producer, and has been the recipient of five Grammy Awards....
- Anthony Jackson
- Lincoln GoinesLincoln GoinesLincoln Goines is a double bassist and bass guitarist originally from Oakland, California.A mainstay of the New York City jazz/Latin/studio scene since the early 1980s and noted for his versatility and fluid style, Goines' extensive career includes performance credits as sideman to: Sonny Rollins,...
- Matthew Garrison
- Tom Kennedy
- Richard BonaRichard BonaRichard Bona is a jazz bassist and musician. His real African name, as he said live in Montreal in a show with Bobby McFerrin, is Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo...
- Nathan EastNathan EastNathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
- Marcus MillerMarcus MillerMarcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
- Evan SeinfeldEvan SeinfeldEvan Seinfeld is an American musician and actor, as well as a director, photographer, and writer. He has also appeared in several pornographic films under the pseudonym "Spyder Jonez". He is best known for playing bass guitar and serving as vocalist for the heavy metal band Biohazard, and as the...
- Oteil BurbridgeOteil BurbridgeOteil Burbridge, in Washington, D.C.), is a Grammy Award-nominated American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the current resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band...
- Tony Grey
- Tino Dagostino
- Steve RodbySteve RodbySteve Rodby is an American bassist.He joined the Pat Metheny Group in 1981. Prior to joining Metheny, he was a member of the Simon-Bard Group and the Fred Simon ensemble. Rodby continues to collaborate with Simon .Rodby studied bass at Northwestern University, a student of Warren Benfield of the...
- Janek GwizdalaJanek GwizdalaJanek Gwizdala is an English jazz bassist and record producer born in London.-Biography:Janek's beginnings in music started at age 11 with calssical guitar lessons at the Merton Music Foundation from the Late Peter Woodings, as well as study in classical music through brass ensembles and...
- Steve Rosati
- Mike PopeMike PopeMike Pope is a coach in the National Football League. Since 2004, he has been the tight ends coach for the New York Giants.-Career:As of the 2011 season, Pope has been a coach for 29 years. His coaching skills have been attributed as a reason for former New York Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey's...
- Grant Tyrie
- Robert Kubiszyn
- Kevin Freeby
- Hadrien FeraudHadrien FeraudHadrien Feraud is a French Jazz fusion-bassist.-Biography:Feraud was born into a family of musicians. His first guitar lessons were from his father when he was eight years old....
- Dominique Di Piazza
- Joshua Barnhart
- Carlos Hurtado
- Tim BogertTim BogertJohn Voorhis "Tim" Bogert III is an American musician. He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School in his hometown in 1963...
Fodera list of artists.
See also
- SpectorSpectorSpector is an American based company that manufacturers bass guitars. Founded in 1974 by self-taught luthier Stuart Spector, Spector's first few instruments were essentially crude experiments in instrument design and craftsmanship...
- Ned SteinbergerNed SteinbergerNed Steinberger is an American creator of innovative musical instruments. He is most notable for his design of guitars and basses without a traditional headstock, which are called Steinberger instruments...
- SteinbergerSteinbergerSteinberger refers to a series of distinctive electric guitars and bass guitars, designed and originally manufactured by Ned Steinberger. The word Steinberger can be used to refer to either the instruments themselves or the company that produced them...
- Ken Smith Basses
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- Kramer GuitarsKramer GuitarsKramer Guitars is an American manufacturer of electric guitars and basses. Kramer produced aluminum-necked electric guitars and basses in the 1970s and wooden-necked guitars catering to hard rock and heavy metal musicians in the 1980s; Kramer is currently a division of Gibson Guitar Corporation...