![]() The Rosewood finger board has little wear and frets exhibit litt. This iconic piece of history plays beautifully with low action and the sound is fantastic. This guitar is overall in very good condition. Zac Pennington used a modified version of the guitar on tours with his project Parenthetical Girls. 1966 Fender Musicmaster II 24' scale, with original period hard shell case. Lydia Night of The Regrettes uses a Swinger live and in the band's Seashore music video. Ben Kweller used a Swinger to record most of his self-titled album and has used it in concert. Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads used a Swinger in live performances, as seen in the concert movie Stop Making Sense. Records of Swinger production and sales are poor and it is unclear exactly how many were produced or which parts were used on each instrument. For example, the neck may be date-stamped 1966. Dating Īs the Swinger was built using parts that were surplus, the individual components may be older than the guitar. The model never appeared in any Fender promotional literature. Between 300 and 600 Swingers were produced. The Swinger used excess parts from the Fender Bass V and Fender Musicmaster, with the Bass V pickup routing hidden under the pickguard. He had risen to Product Manager by the mid 1960s, and was both skilled and well-liked within the company. Simoni had begun work at Fender in 1953 at the age of 16. The Swinger and its cousin, the Custom, were both developed under the supervision of Virgilio 'Babe' Simoni, without the help or even involvement of Fender's R&D Department. The Swinger was marketed as another cheaper, short-scale 'student' guitar, but never seriously promoted, with resulting low popularity. Fender Maverick), the model was an effort to liquidate excess parts and inventory. Bodies made from the Duo-Sonic II have no comfort cuts and a shorter bottom horn. The routing beneath the pickguard differs between instruments made from a Duo-Sonic II or Bass V. The Swinger was an attempt by CBS (which had bought the company in 1965) to extract cash from inventory by combining unused bodies from the Duo-Sonic II and the failed Fender Bass V with parts from the Fender Musicmaster. Estimates of the model's total production number range from 250 to 600 made. The Fender Swinger (also known as the Fender Musiclander and Fender Arrow – as the "Swinger" emblem is usually missing from the headstock) was a short-lived electric guitar model released by Fender in 1969 and reissued by Fender Japan in 2019 as a limited edition run in single and dual pickup versions. 1 or 2 single-coil pickups with 3-way selector (2019 reissue), offset variant (reverse polarity)ĭakota Red, Black, Candy Apple Red, Olympic White, Sonic Blue, Lake Placid Blue, Burgundy Mist Metallic
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