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The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, initially named the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, was started by Leo Fender in the 1940s, and is one of the most widely recognised manufacturers of electric guitars, bass guitars and amplifiers. Its headquarters are in Scottsdale, Arizona, with manufacturing facilities in Corona, California, and OCONUS manufacturing facilities in Ensenada (Mexico), Korea and Japan. Fender is particularly important because of its role in bringing solidbody electric guitars to the masses. Fender offered the first mass-produced solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (originally named the 'Esquire,' and then the 'Broadcaster'); the first mass-produced electric bass guitar, the Precision Bass (or P-Bass); and the enormously popular Stratocaster guitar (or Strat). While other companies and luthiers had produced electric guitars since the late 1920s, nearly all were either hollow-body guitars with pickups attached, or more specialized instruments such as Rickenbacker's solid-body Hawaiian lap steel guitars. Other popular and/or notable Fender instruments include the Mustang, Jazzmaster, Jaguar, Starcaster, Duosonic, and Bronco guitars; bass guitars such as the Jazz Bass, the 'Telecaster Bass' reissue of the original 1950s Precision Bass; a line of lap steels, and the Fender Rhodes electric piano.

Early History

The company began as "Fender's Radio Service" in late 1938 in Fullerton, California. As a qualified electronics technician, Leo was asked to repair not only radios, but phonograph players, home audio amplifiers, public address systems and musical instrument amplifiers. (Technical note: at the time, most of the above were simply variations on a few simple vacuum-tube circuits). The business also sidelined in carrying records for sale and the rental of self-designed-and-built PA systems. He became intrigued by design flaws in current musical instrument amplifiers, and

Fender


I'm thinking about a page dedicated to the Fender-Gibson rivalry. It'll have stuff on solid-body vs. hollow-body, basses, amps, and that kind of thing. Does it sound useful, and what should I call it if so?Deltabeignet 01:09, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Gibson-Fender Rivalry

I'm not sure a rivalry page would be that useful, but certainly a page covering electric guitar maintenance that incorporated issues like single-coil vs humbucker, solid-body vs semi-solid-body characteristics etc could be very useful.

Leo Fender


Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991) was an American luthier who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, now known as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, and later founded G&L Musical Products (G&L Guitars). Born in Fullerton, California, Fender expressed an interest in electrical engineering at a young age. He built and repaired radios as a hobby while in high school. After graduating from high school in 1928, Fender attended Fullerton Junior College, where he majored in accounting. After working as an accountant for the California Highway Department, Fender started a radio repair business, which he and Clayton "Doc" Kauffman soon expanded into the manufacture of electric steel ("Hawaiian") guitars and amplifiers. After ending business ties with Kauffman, Fender became interested in the idea of a practical, solid-bodied "Spanish-style" electric guitar. In 1950, he and George Fullerton introduced first the Esquire and then the Broadcaster, the first standard electric guitars produced by the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company. Due to a trademark conflict with another musical instrument company the Gretsch Broadkaster line of drums, the Broadcaster's name was quickly changed to Telecaster and perhaps the most enduring electric guitar ever was born. In 1951 Fender introduced the Precision Bass, which became the inventor's single most influential instrument. By replacing the unamplified "stand-up" contrabass, the "P-Bass" radically changed both the practice and the sound of pop music. This was followed quickly by the introduction in 1954 of the Stratocaster, whose modernistic styling and musical versatility made it a true cultural icon, easily the most recognizable electric guitar ever made. Ironically Leo Fender never learned to play guitar himself (although he had played saxophone in high school) but he had close ties to the musicians' community in southern California. Therefore he could approach the

Fender Jaguar


The Fender Jaguar guitar was introduced as a surf guitar when the less "rock and roll" and more mellow Fender Jazzmaster became popular among rock and roll bands in the 1960s. The Jaguar was based on the Jazzmaster, but had a sharper sound designed with surf bands in mind and a slightly different set-up. However, as the 1960s passed fewer and fewer took notice in the Jaguar (and the Jazzmaster) and, as a result, Fender had to stop production. But they never quite died, they would become popular in the underground trade/sell-marked and were soon to be revived. As the 1990s came along the popularity of the Jaguar exploded when they saw heavy use by various grunge and rock and roll bands such as Nirvana and Sonic Youth and Fender saw the need to restart production of both the Jazzmaster and Jaguar. Here are some informative webpages on the Fender Jaguar (and Jazzmaster): http://www.fenderjaguar.net fenderjaguar.net http://www.webrocker.de/jaguar webrocker.de/jaguar http://www.jagandjazz.com jagandjazz.com http://www.jag-stang.com/ Jag-Stang.com Category:Guitars


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