Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Parker, the mastermind behind the innovative Parker Fly electric guitar, has died at the age of 73, it has been confirmed.

Ken Parker's archtop quest can be traced back to a 21 year old taking guitar lessons with a jazz player named Dick Longdale in Rochester, New York. He became fascinated by his teacher's Gibson L-12, ...

HAMDEN — When John Thomas, guitar enthusiast and Quinnipiac University law professor, first visited the late Ken Parker’s guitar studio in Massachusetts, he was amazed by the caliber of the ...

Ken Parker, an iconoclastic guitar maker who upended entrenched luthier traditions by producing hyper-engineered, flyweight guitars seemingly designed for an art gallery, if not the 23rd century, died ...

Ken Parker, a legendary guitar maker known for his design for the Parker Fly, has died. He was 73. His death came just days after he revealed via a GoFundMe that he was battling cancer. “I’ve been ...