Fibonacci Guitars is located in London, one of the World’s most vibrant international hubs for music. Their studio is critically important in the development of new products. It ensures that the new designs are exposed to a wide variety of players, and are tested in a ‘real’ and demanding environment for refinement, before going into production. In fact, it is the case that there are numerous recent album releases with recordings of FIBONACCI® prototype guitars ‘sprinkled’ all over them as part of this ongoing research and development process.
For many years now, the team behind FIBONACCI® hasbeen instrumental in collaborating with various, artists, designers and luthiers in developing, and delivering to market, many of the recent releases previously manufactured, under license, by Peerless. Notably, releases such as the Martin Taylor Maestro & Virtuoso Signatures, the Retromatic ‘P’ & ‘B’ series, and most recently, the Jezebel and Retromatic 131 range. These collaborations continue at with all of the designs now independently manufactured and branded under FIBONACCI® GUITARS, or under the artist’s own signature.
With the greatest of respect accorded to the mathematical genius of LEONARDO FIBONACCI®, the evolution of the ‘GOLDEN RATIO’ and all things ‘PHI’, other than musical scales, they do not play any ‘numbers’ game. The emphasis at is on quality, not quantity; they keep production levels low and manageable, thus ensuring quality is paramount.
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All of the materials specified to produce a FIBONACCI®GUITAR are seasoned and responsibly sourced without restriction, from various suppliers around the world. All final assembly, painting, nitrocellulose lacquering and hand finishing, using genuine quality components, takes place in the UK.All of the hardware products specified for use on a FIBONACCI®GUITAR are guaranteed to be genuine branded parts, produced only by authorized manufacturers.
What you will receive when you purchase a FIBONACCI® GUITAR is a quality, completely hand-crafted instrument, hand-finishedin the UK to the highest standards.
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Nigel Price And The New Fibonacci Londoner Model
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OK |Privacy policyAt £3, 499 it may not be the cheapest, but you’ll be hard pressed to find an instrument that has both the musicality and character of The Londoner...
Archtop guitar manufacturer Fibonacci recently launched The Londoner, born out of a collaboration with British jazz guitarist Nigel Price. Boasting a Venetian cutaway body in bister sunburst nitrocellulose, it features a hand-carved solid flame maple top and three-ply laminate flame maple back and rims. Its ‘thin line’ profile offers 2” rims, while the lower bout is a sizeable 17”. The flame maple set-neck is a ‘one piece’ neck/headstock design constructed in three sections, with the centre section rotated to add strength.
Atop the neck is an ebony fingerboard with 22 stainless-steel medium jumbo frets and mother-of-pearl block position markers. The bone nut sports a generous 44.5mm width, while above (on the face of the headstock), the gold foil Fibonacci name and Price’s signature are tastefully displayed. The encased SG310 gold Gotoh tuners have solid turned ebony buttons.
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All the bindings are in solid maple, including those around the ‘f’ holes, while the pickguard and floating bridge are in solid ebony. The tone and volume controls are, for some reason, turned in African blackwood, while the floating bridge has a fully adjustable tune-o-matic saddle section with strings retained in a caste gold ‘lyre’ tailpiece. A Jon Dickinson ‘Big Ben’ PAF floating humbucker and a ‘series to parallel’ switch complete the picture.
In practice, the 2” rims make this guitar very comfortable to play. And the slim, shallow C-profile neck just adds to the pleasure: it’s smooth and fast with the upper reaches easily accessible. The slightly wider than normal (for a jazz guitar) nut width, makes fingering at the head of the instrument that much easier (Steady on! – Ed) – particularly for those with oversize digits!
Naturally bright, due to the all-maple construction, The Londoner has excellent note separation, while the tone is crystal clear and clean, particularly at the bottom, where there is no muddiness whatsoever. A full five stars go to Jon Dickinson for his ‘Big Ben’ floating PAF humbucker pickup, which really helps bring out and enhance the guitar’s natural acoustic qualities, while also adding sonic depth and rich tonal character. Interestingly, there is more of an ‘electric’ sound coming out of this pickup than you would normally expect to hear from a ‘floater’. We suspect that this is down to the pickup windings being in both series and parallel, but also perhaps due to some judicious ‘overwinding’. Whatever the intricacies of the wiring, the Big Ben makes this instrument sing!
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This archtop can undoubtedly compete with the best of them. At £3, 499 it may not be the cheapest, but you’ll be hard pressed to find an instrument that has both the musicality and character of The Londoner.It is a long story why Fibonacci named their latest release the Fibonacci Fibonacci. “Perhaps it is just because it is such a wonderful guitar, one feels the urge to say its name twice”, say Fibonacci.. Or perhaps it is part of a cunning marketing plan that encourages the reader to stop and think… ‘ah ha, they made a typo error’. But whatever the reason, its name does not take anything away from this beauty.
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, the Fibonacci Fibonacci, has an obvious influence in aesthetic design from a very well known guitar builder (answers on a postcard!).
The Fibonacci Fibonacci is a completely hollow, double cut-away archtop, with 16” lower bout, 56mm deep body, produced from a hand carved AAA spruce top, with hand carved mahogany back, sides, and neck, 22 Jescar EVO Gold frets, and 17th fret neck joint. It is complemented with solid maple binding, ebony fingerboard and floating pickguard. Fibonacci have opted to fit the Fibonacci Fibonacci with a gold, floating trapeze type tailpiece as standard, but a floating ebony one can be fitted if preferred.
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The Fibonacci Fibonacci comes with a single floating ‘Micro Stealth’ Krivo pickup, which packs plenty of punch, while sounding well balanced and articulate. Krivo, are critically acclaimed, innovative boutique pickups for working musicians, personally hand made by Jason Krivo Flores in Portland, Oregon USA. If you haven’t already done so, check them out.
Body Style – Arched back and top, Double Cut-away – Body Width at Lower Bout- 425mm – Body Length – 480mm – Body Depth- 56mm – Top Wood- Hand Carved AAA Spruce – Back & Sides- Hand Carved Mahogany – Body Binding – Solid Maple – F Hole Binding- N/A – Nut-Bone – Neck Profile- 43mm at Nut, 57mm at End Fret – Neck Construction- Mahogany – Neck Binding- Solid Maple – Finger Board- Indian Ebony Fingerboard, No Inlay – Neck Scaling -625mm, Dove Tail Joint at 17 F – Frets- 22 Jescar EVO Gold Frets – Bridge- Indian Ebony Floating – Pickguard – Indian Ebony Floating – Tailpiece – Gold Trapeze – Tuners- Gotoh SGS310 Ebony Knobs – Pickup- Floating KRIVO Micro Stealth- Pots – Premium CTS 500K/
1000k Audio Sweep Volume/ Tone with Ebony Knobs – Output Jack – Switchcraft – Wiring-Shielded Braided Steel – Finish- Nitrocellulose – Strings – Thomastik Infield Flatwounds – Case – Hiscox Insulated Flight Case
Andrea Tacchi
The Fibonacci Fibonacci is available to order from March 2020. Price from £3, 499.00 GBP. More information and audio files, can be found at:
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