Starplayer TV Phonic

Semi-Hollow

The Starplayer Phonic is a semi-hollow instrument featuring a solid centerblock, Pearloid binding, a single F-Hole, arched top and a flat back. Semi-hollow guitars deliver a unique and open response suitable for any genre.

Phonico Pickups

Fitted with our most popular pickup combination: GrandVintage Humbucker and Domino P90 covered by our elegant Phonico pickup covers in a striking gold finish. The 4-Way rotary switch offers a new pickup combination.

Plek Processed

A Plek processed fretboard guarantees perfectly level frets. This is the basis for our multi-step fret polishing and setup work all done by hand that eventually makes all our instruments play like nothing you have ever played before.

Angled view on the new Duesenberg Phonico pickup covers

Phonico Pickups

With the Starplayer TV Phonic in an all-over bright Venetian White or all Black we are continuing our vision of truly independent hardware design.

The Phonic comes with the award-winning set of a GrandVintage humbucker for the bridge and Domino P90 for the neck position. The new pickup selector allows you to choose between each pickup individually or two options of combining them. The first option lets both pickups run freely without touching the frequencies, while the second option filters certain frequencies to give your tone a unique and even more defined character.

View of the bottom half of the body of the Starplayer TV Phonic showing the golden Tremolo

RADIATOR VIBRATO UNIT

THE DUESENBERG RADIATOR TREMOLA IS THE EVOLUTION OF OUR OWN VIBRATO SYSTEM DESIGN.

It keeps everything that you love about about our original Diamond Deluxe Vibrato and delivers it in a new and exciting design.

Buttery smooth action, reliable tuning stability and string changes that are a breeze are just the main aspects of our unique vibrato design. Heavy duty needle and nylon bearings give you the highly responsive Duesenberg feel when using the vibrato arm. The arm itself can be turned freely for 360° and can be adjusted to your preferred angle and length. The strings are simply guided through the holes in the bar underneath the arm-axis and can be lead to the tuners without hassle.

Angled view of the Starplayer TV Phonic Black on black background

"Finally, a proper signal!"

That's the number one feedback we receive from FOH once they start mixing our instruments during soundcheck. The Phonic delivers all the open, bright and defined tone that our instruments are known for. It is designed to sit right where a guitar has to sit in the mix while still providing every frequency needed to cut through.

View of the Starplayer TV Phonics Headstock and fretboard

PLEKED FRETBOARD

The fretboard is to your music, what the handle of a brush is to a painting. It says a lot about an instrument how much care was taken here.

Every single Duesenberg instrument is expertly pleked for buzz-free playability all throughout the fretboard. It is then carefully finished by hand and precisely set up by one of our professional luthiers. The luthier responsible also leaves his or her signature inside the instrument.

This all is our promise to you that a Duesenberg instrument will always feel great in your hands.

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Made to hold something that lasts

A good case is one that's more sturdy than what's inside.

Handsome, laid-back and simply a good place for your instrument. Meet the Duesenberg Custom Line Cases. True flightcase quality, classically shaped, beautifully handcrafted and made to endure the most realistic and unrealistic abuses. It's a case you can just throw in the back of a car, train or airplane and won't have to worry about.

This instrument comes including the Duesenberg Custom Line Case as standard.

Specifications

Neck
Type:	Set Neck, 1-piece Maple
Width:	42.5 mm / 1.67" (nut), 52 mm / 2.05" (12th fret)
Thickness:	21 mm / 0.8" (1st fret), 24 mm / 0.95" (12th fret)
Shape:	Medium D
Fingerboard:	Indian Rosewood, radius 305 mm / 12"
Inlays:	Duesenberg Wing
Frets:	22 Jumbo 2.8 x 1.0 mm
Scale length:	648 mm / 25.5"
Trussrod:	Steel dual-action
Headstock:	Matching body color

Body
Type:	Semi-hollow with sustain block, bent sides, f-hole
Top:	Laminated Spruce, arched
Back:	Laminated Maple, flat
Sides:	Laminated Maple
Dimensions:	46 x 34 cm / 18.11" x 13.38"
Height (sides):	4.5 cm / 1.8"
Binding:	Pearloid, 5-layer purfling
Pickguard:	Custom Gold
Finish:	PUR lacquer

Hardware
Tuners:	Duesenberg Z-Tuners
Bridge:	Duesenberg Steel Saddle Bridge
Vibrato System:	Duesenberg Radiator Tremolo
Strap pins:	Duesenberg Standard (Straplock compatible)
Hardware color:	Gold
Strings:	Duesenberg Custom 10/50 (010-013-017-028-042-050)

Electrics
Pickup (neck):	Duesenberg "Phonico" (P90 Domino)
Pickup (bridge):	Duesenberg "Phonico" (GrandVintage Humbucker)
Wiring:	1 Volume, 1 Tone, 4-way Rotary Switch

Accessories
Case:	Custom Line Case (included)
Tools:	All required allen keys (included)

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Artist Alliance

Instruments we created in collaboration with artists around the world. Designed for their individual needs, but made for everyone.

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Semi Hollow

Bent sides and glued on top and back. Added solid center block. The classic construction. Semi-Hollow instruments combine the distinct tone of a hollow construction with the feedback resistance of a solid body. Extremely versatile.

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Chambered

A solid body that features big sound chambers for enhanced tone and weight reduction. Particularly characteristic tone somewhere between a solid and semi-hollow construction.