Fodera
| Private | |
| Industry | Musical instruments |
| Founded | Brooklyn, New York (1983) |
| Founder | Vinny Fodera and Joey Lauricella |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
Area served | Global |
| Products | Bass guitars |
| Owner | Vinny Fodera and Joey Lauricella |
| Website | Fodera - Official site |
Fodera is an American manufacturer of electric bass guitars in Brooklyn, New York. Vinny Fodera and Joey Lauricella launched the company around 1983 after dissolving their working relationship with Ken Smith Basses. The company also manufactures a limited number of guitars each year. Fodera's first official instrument was a guitar.
Company
Fodera instruments are made with an inlaid butterfly on the headstock of most basses. Other features include an atypical single-cutaway design, an ash neck and exposed dual-coil pickups with wood covers. Bartolini pickups with PJ and JJ configurations are also available on certain models. These Fodera instruments also have 5 or 6 strings on them.
Fewer than three thousand Fodera instruments have been manufactured since 1983.
Products
- Fodera Monarch
- Fodera Emperor
- Fodera Emperor II
- Fodera Imperial
- Fodera Imperial II (formerly known as Fodera BeezElite)
- Fodera NYC
Signature products
The company also makes "Signature series"-basses, based on some of their players' personal instruments. The following models are available:
- Fodera Victor Wooten signature Monarch (Classic [1] or YinYang [2] versions)
- Fodera Anthony Jackson Presentation Contrabass[3]
- Fodera Lincoln Goines signature Imperial[4]
- Fodera Matthew Garrison signature Imperial[5]
- Fodera Tom Kennedy signature Emperor II[6]
Notable players
- Victor Wooten [1][2]
- Anthony Jackson [3]
- Lincoln Goines [4]
- Matthew Garrison [5]
- Tom Kennedy [6]
- Richard Bona
- Nathan East
- Marcus Miller
- Evan Seinfeld
- Oteil Burbridge
- Tony Grey
- Tino D'Agostino
- Steve Rodby
- Janek Gwizdala
- Steve Rosati
- Mike Pope
- Michel "Labex" Labaky
- Grant Tyrie
- Robert Kubiszyn
- Kevin Freeby
- Hadrien Feraud
- Dominique Di Piazza
- Joshua Barnhart
- Tim Bogert
- Hartmut Hillmann
- John Ferrara
See also
References
- Roberts, Jim (May 2003). American Basses (First ed.). Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-721-8.
- Tony Bacon; Barry Moorhouse (June 1995). The Bass Book. Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-368-9.
- 1 2 "Victor Wooten '83 Classic". Fodera. Archived November 1, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Victor Wooten Yin Yang 4 String". Fodera. Archived October 31, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Anthony Jackson Presentation Contrabass Guitar". Fodera. Archived November 1, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Lincoln Goines Imperial". Fodera. Archived November 3, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Matthes Garrison Signature". Fodera. Archived November 1, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 "Tom Kennedy Signature Emperor II". Fodera. Archived November 1, 2010 at the Wayback Machine