If you know that Fender made an organ, this is probably the one you’re thinking of.  I used to think (as most combo-aficionados do) that they were quite rare.  However, over the last few years, I’ve seen or heard of about two dozen, so they’re not any more uncommon than many lesser-known models.  Which isn’t to say they’re are a ton of them out there, just that they’re not such an ultra-rare-bird after all. They were made in the late 60’s at the Fender plant, and used many parts made by Pratt-Reed, which also made the Rhodes keyboards.

This starmaster/guild was possibly intended to be a successor to the contempo, but at the time, Fender was shifting their keyboard focus to the more popular Rhodes pianos. According to Barry Carson’s chapter in "Vintage Synthesizers", the Starmaker(sic) may never have made it into production. The one pictured here may be one of the few in existence. It appeared in a 1968, but never appeared in a catalog. Neither Harold Rhodes(who passed away on 12/17/2000) nor Steve Woodward, both of whom were involved with Fender’s keyboard line at the time, had any recollection of it (Steve was quite involved with the Contempo, however). Unlike the Contempo, the Starmaster was made in Italy. It may have been something that they just chose to import and resell under the Fender name, and then decided against it.