The story of Fender’s early-1980s brush with oblivion, mid-decade rescue and gradual re-emergence is well-documented. Happily, the company’s return to prominence for the remainder of the ’80s and throughout the 1990s included a vigorous emphasis on acoustic guitars that harkened back to i...
Second, Leo Fender’s first two revolutionary guitars were so innovative, so brilliantly designed and so uncannily right, practically from their introduction that any company—including Fender itself—would’ve been hard-pressed to top them. The Telecaster, eight years old by 1958, was already a ...
With the Jazzmaster’s underdog image rapidly fading into the past, we take a step back in time with Fender historian Terry Foster, and catch up with Mike Long, proprietor of vintage specialists ATB Guitars in Cheltenham, U.K., to touch on its future
California, Fender Musical Instrument Corporation went on to become the world’s preeminent name in musical instruments. Today, Fender guitars and amplifiers are icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable even to those with only a casual interest in music. ...
Elsewhere, makers have occasionally offered conventional electrics with an unusual metallic twist – for example, the few hundred mid-90s Strats thatFenderproduced with hollow anodised aluminium bodies. There have been very unconventional guitars with metal at their core – like the shortlived 80s Synt...
the small crew of locals produced guitars as fast as they could. “Many of those original instruments are still out there being played,” says Oliver. In 1997, Carey Nordstrand left to pursue other ventures. By early 1998, demand for Traveler Guitars had exceeded the small company’s producti...
2 of 2 electric guitarAn electric guitar.(more) Among variant forms of the guitar are the 12-stringed, or double-course, guitar, and the Mexican jarana and the South American charango, both small five-course guitars. Lyre-shaped guitars were fashionable in 19th-century drawing rooms. Other ...
While there are many variations on the neck length, shape, number of strings, and general build of electric guitars, most of them consist of the same elements: a body, usually made of wood or plaster, which comprises the bulk of the guitar and can be shaped in a variety of ways; a ...
An assessment by McLaren, Smith and Schultz resulted in the production of Fender guitars in the US virtually coming to a halt, in order to permit a rethink of the manufacturing process. In The Fender Telecaster: The Detailed Story Of America’s Senior Solid Body Electric Guitar, AR Duchossoi...
Complete History of Fender Guitars David,Sanjek - 《Journal of American History》 被引量: 1发表: 2001年 Guitar: acoustic, structural and historical aspects In this article there will be developed a discussion about some of the main aspects of the functioning of the acoustic guitars, beginning ...