PRS Debuts New Mark Lettieri Signature Fiore Guitar

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PRS has teamed up with Snarky Puppy guitarist Mark Lettieri to create a new signature guitar, the Fiore.

Named after the Italian word for "flower," the guitar boasts a swamp ash body, maple neck, and maple fretboard with a 25.5" scale-length. A two-point steel tremolo, a truss rod cover featuring a flower image designed by Lettieri's mother, and vintage-style locking tuners also come standard.

Perhaps the guitar's most notable features though, are its pickups – the Fiore-S and Fiore-H. Voiced by Lettieri himself, they aim to front explosive funk and rock attacks, articulate even the most delicate of melodies, and provide powerful high-gain lead tones with a silky top end between them, according to PRS.

The pickups are controlled by a single volume and two push/pull tone controls, and a five-way blade switch.

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The PRS Mark Lettieri signature Fiore guitar will be available – in Amaryllis, Sugar Moon, and Black Iris finishes – in May. A price for the guitar has yet to be announced.

For more info on the guitar, stop by prsguitars.com.

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.