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Fender FV-1

Name: Fender FV-1
Brand: Fender

Fender · FV-1 Electric Violin

Price: 350 EUR – 1.030 EUR

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Availability: 4/10 (Common)

A chambered-body electric violin from a brand better known for guitars: solid spruce top and maple back/sides with a specially designed piezo bridge, minimizing feedback for stage use.

Where available? Go to the best price – 350 EUR About this instrument

About the Fender FV-1

The FV-1 uses a chambered body (internal cavities routed out rather than a fully solid block or a fully hollow acoustic body) with a solid spruce top and maple back and sides - a middle ground construction that keeps some resonance while resisting the feedback a fully hollow acoustic-electric violin would suffer at stage volume. The purpose-designed piezo bridge is the core of the electronics, feeding simple passive volume and tone controls.

At a standard 13-inch scale with an ebony fingerboard and ebony tuning pegs, it's built to full-size violin proportions rather than a novelty shape, finished in gloss polyurethane. The complete package includes a hard shell case, horse-tail hair bow, rosin, and an ebony chin rest - a fuller outfit than some electric violins that ship as instrument-only.

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Reverb Fender FV-1 Electric Violin (2003) - Black 350 EUR Best price View details
Reverb Fender FV-1 Electric Violin 2005 - Glossy Black 512 EUR View details
Reverb 2003 Fender FV-1 Electric Violin - Clean & Sealed Fender cloth & Warranty pack 885 EUR View details
eBay FENDER FV-1 Electric Violin Black w/Orig. Hardcase Size 4/4 Very Good Condition! 1.030 EUR View details

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Sound character of the Fender FV-1

The FV-1 is a budget solid-body electric violin with a basic piezo pickup and no acoustic chamber, so its sound is defined almost entirely by the pickup's characteristic bright, slightly thin electronic voicing rather than by wood resonance - functional for silent practice and light amplified use rather than tonal nuance.

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Technical data for the Fender FV-1

Top	Solid spruce
Back/Sides	Maple
Fretboard	Ebony
Pickup	Piezo bridge (passive)
Scale length	13"

Price history for the Fender FV-1

Cheapest seen: 350 EUR · Most expensive seen: 1.030 EUR

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The history of the Fender FV-1

Fender's FV-1, though the brand is not historically a string-instrument maker, applied electric-guitar-style construction thinking (chambered bodies, piezo bridges) to violin, aimed at guitarists and bandleaders wanting an electric violin sound without switching to a specialist string-instrument brand.