The World's Largest Guitar Manufacturer About Fender Fender Musical Instruments Our History The Legacy Begins The Fender story begins over 70 years ago in a small Fullerton, California workshop. A radio repairman by trade and inventor at heart, Leo Fender made the transition to musical instruments...
Fender’s richacoustic guitarhistory dates back to the early 1960s, when the company injected a much-needed dose of modernity and youthfully exuberant Southern California sun-and-fun culture into the old world of acoustic guitar design. A Fender acoustic guitar was not one for which you dressed...
Throughout its history, Fender has continued to innovate and produce iconic instruments, including the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass, and others, catering to a wide range of music genres. Despite facing challenges, such as the sale of the company to CBS in 1965 and subseque...
Les Paul had shown Gibson his “log” created from a 4 X 4 piece of solid wood that had “wings” added to it from a standard archtop guitar body to make a recognizable guitar shape that allowed it to be played sitting in the early 1940s. O.W. Appleton also pitched his APP Guitar ...
Since the founding of its predecessor company in 1946 by “Leo” Fender, Fender has built a reputation for producing some of the world’s best-sounding and best-playing electric guitars. Fender’s Stratocaster ® and Telecaster ® guitar models have become rock-and-roll icons as the ...
Jan. 5, 1965: The company is sold to Columbia Records Distribution Corp., a subsidiary of CBS, for $13 million (the equivalent of approximately $130 million today). Later years: Fender goes on to work for a couple other guitar companies in Southern California. He is president of Music ...
For most vintage guitar collectors and enthusiasts, 1965 stands as the single most important year in the history of Fender. It was in 1965 that management of Fender transferred to the CBS corporation who had purchased the company from Leo Fender for 13 million dollars (that’s two million ...
It offered Fender a true parallel brand, which set in motion a shift that proved the company could compete at the budget end of the guitar market. Perhaps most significantly in business terms, it would lead beyond the gradual recovery following the CBS sale to Fender becoming the international...
The World's Leading Guitar Manufacturer Synonymous with All Things Rock N' Roll Today, FMIC brands include Fender®, Squier®, Gretsch®, Jackson®, Charvel® and EVH® among others. With an illustrious history dating back to 1946, Fender has touched and transformed music worldwide and...
The One That Started It All: A Telecaster History THE RUNDOWN While Leo Fender and the staff of his small Southern California instrument- and amp-making company knew that they’d built a revolutionary new guitar when they introducedthe Telecasterin early 1951, they had no idea of the size ...