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, ...

Ken Parker, the mastermind behind the innovative Parker Fly electric guitar, has died at the age of 73, it has been confirmed. News of Parker’s passing was confirmed on Tuesday (October 7) morning via ...

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 ...