The Indonesian-made model breaks new ground for Fender affordability and is sure to put the Acoustasonic into the hands of ...
As Director of Fender Electric Guitars, every launch bearing the big F on the headstock since 2007 has had to pass his personal test of feel and tone. The Player Series, American Professional ...
Fender has teamed up with internet gear retail giant Reverb and is now selling officially second-hand acoustic and electric guitars on the platform. All of the instruments that are through the ...
Both guitars are finished with either a Sitka spruce or mahogany top and bolt on mahogany neck. The headstocks are of typical Fender electric style, with all the tuning pegs on one side ...
It’s been five full years since Fender has had a presence at NAMM, the musical instruments and equipment industry’s biggest ...
To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...
Narrator: In the span of over 70 years, Fender has become a household name to musicians all around the world. Here's how they make their iconic electric guitars. The process starts with wood ...
The late guitarist shared insights into his influences and techniques in an interviewer for our May 1999 issue ...
Early 1940s: During World War II, Fender meets Clayton Orr “Doc” Kauman, a musician and the chief designer of electric guitars for Rickenbacker (based in Santa Ana and the first maker of ...
In 1954, a guitar maker called Leo Fender introduced his second electric guitar, a companion to his 1950 Telecaster (originally Broadcaster). The new Stratocaster, drawn up with the help of musician ...
A 1963 Fender Telecaster has popped up for sale ... when Dylan infamously opted for an electric guitar rather than acoustic, changing the sound of folk music as we knew it. Toward the end of ...
As a teenager, he started playing “Spanish guitar” – that’s what everybody called acoustic guitars before electric guitars were invented. One day, while he picked the strings with his right hand as ...