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| Fibonacci Guitars |
The company takes it’s name from the Middle Ages Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci who was commonly known as Fibonacci. He popularized the use of our Hindu-Arabic system of numbers, favoring them over Roman numerals (my XVII year old grandkids wouldn’t know what Roman numerals are as they are no longer taught in US schools).
Fibonnaci posited a series of mathematical problems and solutions including the Fibonacci Sequence that has become known as PHI, or the Golden Ratio. This states that a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. However I am straying from the point, as we are talking about guitars.
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| Fibonnaci Ambassador Guitars |
One of their most well known clients is British Gypsy Jazz guitarist Martin Taylor. Martin took up guitar at a very young age, being influenced by his father, bass player Buck Taylor. The elder Taylor played in the Quintette Du Hot Club De France (started by Django Reinhardt). By age 8 Martin was playing guitar in this band, and by 15 he quit school to play music professionally.
Over the years Martin Taylor’s style evolved into more Jazz and Fingerstyle techniques. Martin and his family reside in Scotland. He has developed a long relationship with Fibonnaci Guitars.
The company offers two Martin Taylor models. Both guitars are named after Taylor’s youngest daughters.
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| Fibonnaci Joya |
The electronics are hand wired with premium braded steel wire that is fitted to a premium Kent Armstrong Slimbucker floating pickup with a Birdseye maple cover. The only control is a 500k volume pot with an ebony knob. The guitar comes with a Hiscox insulated flight case.
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| Martin Taylor with Lola |
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| Fibonnaci Lola |
Fibonnaci will be glad to create a guitar for you, but they are quite pricey. The Joya retails for $9,999 USD, while the Lola is $8,999. However these are totally handmade, hand carved, and built by very skilled craftsmen.
The company makes other models as well.
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| Chiquita 13 |
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| Fibonnaci Roma |
The ROMA can be enjoyed ‘unplugged’ or fitted with a LR Baggs bridge pickup to enhance this unique guitar's acoustics perfectly. This dynamic guitar is finished in natural blonde with nitro cellulose lacquer. It retails for $8,399 with the pickup.
The thinline Diablo 14 has a body that is 13.77" at the lower bout and a depth of 1.75". This archtop guitar includes a Florentine cut-away, produced with carved, hand graduated Carpathian spruce soundboard, carved European flame maple back & sides, a maple neck, and complemented with solid maple binding throughout.
The larger Diablo 15 is loosely based on our Diablo model, but with a 15” lower bout width and a super deep Florentine cut-away for easy access to the upper fret area. The DIABLO 15 is an archtop guitar with deep Florentine cut-away, produced with a hand carved spruce sound-board, carved flame maple back & sides. The one-piece flame maple neck, is topped with solid Indian ebony fretboard and binding throughout. The scratch-plate, floating bridge & tailpiece are also made of Indian ebony. This guitar is fitted with a Jon Dickinson floating PAF. pickup. $9.999 is the price tag including case.
The Fibonacci "Fibonacci" model is a completely hollow, double cut-away archtop, with 15.75”) lower bout, and a 2.20"body depth. The guitar's body resembles a Gibson ES-330. This guitar is built from a carved, hand graduated Carpathian spruce top, with carved mahogany back, sides, and neck, 22 Jescar EVO Gold frets, and joins the neck at the 17th fret neck. The hand carved neck has solid maple binding, ebony fingerboard and floating pickguard. This guitar comes with a gold, floating trapeze type tailpiece as standard, but a floating ebony one can be fitted if required.
As someone who has studied guitars for over 50 years I have never seen an arched top nylon string guitar. This beautiful instrument is hand carved from AAAA Carpathian Spruce for the soundboard. The back and sides are carved from AAAA European Flame Maple. A custom oil finish is applied to all of the wood.
If you are interested in purchasing a Fibonnaci guitar, I suggest checking out Reverb or Ebay. In researching this article I found the used market prices to be much less.
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| Fibonnaci Diablo 14 |
The DIABLO 14 comes as standard with ebony fingerboard, scratch-plate, floating bridge & tailpiece. It is available with a single floating pickup or set-in twin pickups. Retail price with one pickup is $9,499 add another $300 for an additional pickup.
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| Diablo 15 |
Their Californian model is hand carved, and hand graduated with a 14.76” body and a depth of 2.48". This archtop model consists of a premium, seasoned select European flame maple sound-board, back & sides, and a maple neck. The Californian is trimmed with solid maple binding throughout, and fingerboard, floating bridge, finger-rest & tailpiece are all crafted in solid ebony. With one pickup it retails for $10,349.
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| Fibonnaci |
It also comes with a single floating ‘Micro Stealth’ Krivo pickup. The Fibonacci model retails for $8,949 with case.
The company makes some other models with most being similar to what I have mentioned. However one very unusual guitar is the Chiquita Custom Nylon String Masterbuild Archtop guitar.
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| Fibonnaci Chaquita Nylon String |
The one piece flame Maple neck is topped with a fingerboard made of Indian Ebony as is the guitars tailpiece and finger rest. This instrument also has a custom made arm rest of Flamed Maple wood. The frets are EVO gold wire. The guitar is fitted with a piezo LR Baggs Lyric pickup. With case included this can be your for $13,000.
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| Reverb Ad for Fibonnaci Joya |
If you are interested in purchasing a Fibonnaci guitar, I suggest checking out Reverb or Ebay. In researching this article I found the used market prices to be much less.
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