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I love music, and I love guitars. The guitar has been the most important musical instrument of my
generation, and I believe it will continue to be for a long time to come. My fascination with the guitar
and all the wonderful musicians who have embraced it has inspired and shaped my working life. More
than 30 years ago, I started to build and repair guitars. Since that time, I've worked with thousands of
guitarists, asking them to define their instruments' best features and worst failings. Their input helped
inspire the design of the Parker Fly, the models that have followed, and all those yet to come. In each,
we combine organic and synthetic materials to create truly virtuosic guitars that perform as no others
can. Our designs and processes are so revolutionary and advanced, many of them are protected by
patents. Because you can't make exceptional guitars without exceptional guitar makers, we employ
only the most skilled artisans to design and build our guitars. Craftsmen whose high proportion of hand
work makes each Parker guitar a work of art. The care and precision that go into our instruments require
a lot of extra work, but we do it because we know you can feel and hear the difference.
The first thing you notice is how they look. A little weird. Strangely geometric. With parallel horns that
reach up like arms that want to play you right back. And they do. Because the moment you pick up
a Parker guitar, you'll feel its sculpted recesses embrace your torso while its featherweight body gives
you effortless access to every note. And when we say "every note," we mean every note—from
visceral, in-your-face electric tones to the warm, juicy harmonies of acoustic. They're all here, in one
guitar. The entire spectrum of jaw-dropping, impassioned sounds, just waiting to be transformed into
music. Your music. One moment you're playing blistering electric grind. The next—thick, meaty,
strum-heavy acoustic. And the next, the two voices are wailing simultaneously, crunching notes that
were in your head before you even knew how to spell the word riff. What is this beast? It doesn't look
like any other guitar ever made. It doesn't feel like any other guitar ever made. And there's no other
guitar— period — that can turn sound into seduction like a Parker guitar.
T H E P A R K E R N I T E F L Y One of the baddest guitars ever made, the featherweight Parker NiteFly features a different
solid tone wood body in every model, allowing you to achieve the exact nuance your music demands. The spookily perfect neck
proportions, glassy-smooth fretboard, and low action make even the most complex chording smooth and effortless. Its sure responsiveness
begs you to take your music where it's never gone before. With its Fishman®/ DiMarzio® custom piezo/magnetic pickup system, you can
switch instantly from a thrashing metal sound to soaring acoustic tones or mix them on-board as you play. Bottom line, it is a dream
machine that packs more sounds per dollar than any electric guitar known to man.
T W O C H O I C E S , M O R E V O I C E S
NITEFLY-SA ®
The ultra-light swamp ash body of the NiteFly-SA has a lively,fast response that's ideal for clean pickin' and cut-it-with-a-kniferhythms. Swamp ash is lighter in weight and more porous, producing a resonance that is fuller and less severe than whatcan be achieved with regular ash or other heavier woods.Its sound is gutteral and clean, yet swampy and spicy, thanks tothat swamp ash mojo. Combined with its solid mahogany neck,the NiteFly-SA produces a ballsy, low end and wonderful, glimmering highs.
NITEFLY-M ®
Solid mahogany from tuners to bridge, the NiteFly-M embodiesall the qualities that have made mahogany the king of tonewoods since the beginning of time. This guitar makes music soarwith a sweet, full midrange and singing upper register that'sboth beefy enough for jazz and raw enough for crushing chordsor rock and blues solos. The chunky neck and jumbo frets willmake your hands feel right at home. Finished with nothing morethan a satiny oil and wax finish, or with high gloss polyurethane,it just begs to be played.
MULTIPLE PERSONALIT IES
Parker's combination ofDiMarzio® magnetic pickupsand Fishman® piezo pickupsmake it possible to producepowerful electric guitar tonesand intricate, full-bodiedacoustic guitar tones from asingle guitar.
PERFECT P ITCH
Our vibrato system adjustsquickly to behave like a fixedbridge, bend down only, orfloating bridge (bending bothup and down). Change bridgepositions instantly withoutthrowing your pitch.
S ILKY-SMOOTH FRETT ING
Our frets are made of hardenedstainless steel (not soft nickellike ordinary guitars) in thecorrect "half-round" shape. Ourpatented glass/carbon-fiberfingerboard gets slicker withsweat, not tackier.
LOCKED-DOWN TUNING
The highest quality pegs available, lightweight Sperzel®
locking pegs help keep theNiteFly in tune even with themost aggressive, mercilessflogging, and make stringchanges fast and painless.
NO-FUSS ADJUSTMENTS
The truss rod adjusts easily toaccommodate different stringgauges and changes in humidity.Made of high strength lightweight steel, it's another reasonwhy Parkers are so light andperfectly balanced.
EVEN RESPONSE
Our NiteFly's patented neckconstruction consists of solidmahogany reinforced with amicro-thin veil of carbon/glasscomposite. Responsive, stable, and lightweight, it produceseven tonal response.
PRECISE TONES
The NiteFly features a truebolt-on neck for a more traditional "Strat" sound withoptimum resonance resultingfrom the finest tone woods and expert engineering.
QUICK-CHANGE ARTISTRY
The smart jack senses stereo ormono cable, splits electric andacoustic sounds to separateamps or combines themthrough one, and lets you mixelectric and acoustic toneswhile playing.
EFFORTLESS PLAYABIL ITY
The Parker NiteFly is madelightweight tone wood reinforced with space-agecomposite. Responsive, practically weightless, and perfectly balanced, it has no dead spots or unevenness in tone.
1 MAG/PIEZO SELECTOR SWITCH
2 MAG SELECTOR SWITCH
3 P IEZO VOLUME MAG VOLUME
4 MAGNETIC TONE
5 MAGNETIC VOLUME
T H E A N A T O M Y O F A P A R K E R N I T E F L Y
5 >
3 >
2 >
4 >
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For a classic, warm jazz tone, choose the neck position pickup and roll downthe tone. For an even better sound,blend in the piezo. This will increase thedefinition and clarity of your tone andbring the sound to life.
For a traditional blues tone, pull the tone knob out. This will give you thatclassic single-coil tone favored by somany blues legends.
For a shimmering clean tone, put themagnetic selector switch in the middleposition and pull the tone knob to activate the two inside coils of the humbuckers. This setting is terrific for the clean rhythm and lead tonesfound in rock, funk, reggae, etc.
For the best clean tone available, add the piezo, and listen to your tone sparkle.
Use the bridge-position humbucker for over-the-top rock tones. For eitherclean or high gain settings, this setting is perfect for classic and/or modern rock tones.
For lead parts, don't forget to try theneck humbucker, especially for ballads,sweep picking, tapping, and arpeggios.
For straight acoustic tone, use the piezo system only. In this position, themagnetic pickups are inactive. Try fingerpicking a classic strummingrhythm, fingerstyle blues, and lead.
Whether you need some acoustic tonefor an intro or the whole song, this is the setting for you. Have you ever usedvibrato on an acoustic guitar? Try it.
Choose the bridge position humbuckerand pull the tone knob out. This will giveyou the vintage single-coil tone closelyassociated with country twang. Playsome fast chicken' pickin' to feel howsmooth the neck plays.
Try some banjo rolls and throw in some double-stops. Whether you favor modern country, traditional, or rockabilly style, you'll have a hard timestopping once you get going.
It 's a revolution in sound —a guitar
capable of producing electric tones,
acoustic tones, or a combination of the
two. Our DiMarzio ® magnetic pickups
produce powerful electric tones while
the Fishman® piezo pickups drive each
string individually for the lush, complex
sound of acoustic. We suggest you use
the stereo cable that comes with the
guitar. Plug the red jack into an acoustic
amp and the grey jack into an electric
guitar amp. (Using a mono cable, the
magnetic and acoustic signals are
blended on the guitar.) To the right are
settings for some of our favorite tones,
but they're just the beginning—the only
limit now is your creativity. So go ahead!
Take this Parker out for a spin.
E X P E R I E N C E T H E D I F F E R E N C E F I R S T - H A N D
ROCKCLEAN ACOUSTIC COUNTRY TWANGJAZZ/BLUES