Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fender Coronado


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The result was keep. WaggersTALK  00:54, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Fender Coronado

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Non-notable commercial product. Completely unreferenced, except for the list of people who use this model. One reference is a link to a Wikipedia Commons picture with no further infomration. It's not hard to find brief reviews of this product, but those don't satisfyt the "substantial" part of WP:GNG and even longer reviews aren't in-depth coverage. Mikeblas (talk) 23:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC) Keep Meets WP:GNG. Significant coverage in independent sources is available. <li> Excerpt: "Ah, the Coronado. One of Fender's most maligned-and perhaps most misunderstood-models. A product of the notorious late-'60s period when the new CBS management was doing its best to demolish Fender's reputation, the Coronado Bass is usually seen as little more than a "Frankenstein" axe that joined a bolt-on, long-scale Fender bass neck (with four-in-line headstock) to the semi-hollow body of a Gibson thinline guitar. Sonically, it had neither the punch of a solidbody Fender nor the muddy thump of a Gibson EB-2. It was, as the saying goes, neither here nor there. Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll find the Coronado Bass has quite an interesting history. The Coronado line (both basses and guitars) was created by Roger Rossmeisl, the German expatriate luthier who had designed the Rickenbacker 4000, the first neck-through electric bass. [Perspective, March '99.] Rossmeisl had been working for Fender since 1962, mostly on acoustic guitars, and it must have seemed logical to the CBS masterminds to have him whip up an acoustic-electric hybridespecially since that was one of Gibson's strongest market areas. The Coronados were introduced with suitable fanfare in 1966. The first bass offered was the single-pickup Bass I; the double-pickup Bass II followed a year later. Unfortunately, one pickup or two, the design didn't quite work. Even when Fender cooked up the psychedelic "Wildwood" Coronados-with bodies made from beechwood that had been colored by injecting dye into the growing trees-musicians reacted with a yawn. As former Fender executive Don Randall once noted, "They were beautiful guitars, but they never went anyplace. Never caught on." The series died with a whimper in 1972, and it has never inspired much interest from vintage enthusiasts."</li> <li> Excerpt: "The Coronados looked like conventional competitors for the Gibson models, with equal-double-cutaway bound bodies that sported large, stylized f-holes. But in fact, just like the earlier flat-tops, they employed the standard Fender bolt-on necks, as well as the company's distinctive headstock design. Options included a new vibrato tailpiece, and there was a 12-string version that used the Electric XII's large curved headstock design. Unfamiliar with some edge-binding techniques, factory hands had to re-do some of the work. To cover up burn marks caused by re-binding, the team devised a special white-to-brown shaded finish — Antigua — to salvage the scorched Coronados. Antigua-finish Coronados would go on sale over the next few years."</li> <li> Excerpt: "After fifteen years of producing solidbody guitars, Leo Fender had decided the time was right to offer an uncharacteristic thinline hollow body electric guitar. As the man who had designed all of Rickenbacker's classic hollow body models, Rossmeisl was the man for the job. The back and sides of the Coronado were constructed from laminated beechwood, and featured a gently arched maple top—again, unusual for Fender. A further departure was in the use of nonstandard Fender pick-ups; the Coronado was fitted with single-coil DeArmonds. The Coronado was produced between 1966 and 1972. The model shown features a "Wildwood" finish, a dubious-sounding process that involved injecting a chemical dye into the growing beech tree prior to harvesting. This resulted in an unusual stained grain pattern of the wood, a thin laminate of which was then used on the top of the body."</li> </ol> Jfire (talk) 03:22, 26 January 2023 (UTC) </ul>
 * <small class="delsort-notice">Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Music and Products.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 23:27, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. This particular model of guitar is among Fender's best-known, even if it's not the Stratocaster. Why? I Ask (talk) 05:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC)


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