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The Fender Telecaster guitar has quite rightly been amazingly popular for many years because of its good looks and particularly distinctive sound, which is very effective in country music and blues. It has of course very often been utilised in other musical genres too.
The guitar has not surprisingly acquired a large number of famous guitar playing admirers through the years including Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers and Bruce Springsteen.
Listed below are 10 quick facts relating to this legendary six string electric guitar:
1. Leo Fender developed the Telecaster in 1948 in sunny California. This was a time that many leading manufacturers were experimenting and producing designs. As a result the Fender Telecaster needed to be extremely quick off the mark.
2. The guitar came onto the scene as the Broadcaster model in 1949 and is still manufactured today in one form or another. There have of course been numerous impersonators but the Fender original is the all-important model.
3. In 1950 the very first one pickup model hit production and was known as the Esquire.
Having a guitar built from scratch is a great way to get a unique instrument that sounds like no other guitar in the world. Whether you are a player or a collector, you can appreciate the effect of having a one-of-a-kind instrument.
Obviously, it is usually an expensive proposition to have a custom-made guitar, so the project should be shopped and planned carefully. Let’s take a look at some things to consider when choosing your custom guitar builder.
Look and Sound
To find an expert luthier, you may have to look across the country or even outside your home country, and this means that you may not be able to see and play any of their guitars in person, unless they are willing to ship you a sample guitar for testing. Don’t be discouraged by this, however, as any top-notch luthier will have an available online gallery of their work to look at, and should also be able to provide audio samples of their guitars being played. It’s not ideal, but being able to evaluate these qualities online gives you the opportunity to look far and wide for the right luthier to build your custom guitar.
The guitar is one of the most popular musical instruments today. The guitar industry is huge, and includes everything from cheap guitars you can buy at discount stores to custom instruments that costs thousands of dollars. Many huge companies churn out guitars using a factory model and assembly-line production techniques, which allows them to bring down the cost of the guitars while still maintaining a certain quality. A custom guitar, on the other hand, is made once, usually by one individual luthier, who hand-picks the wood and creates a unique instrument every time.
There is no doubt that factory-made guitars cost less, and their quality depends on a number of factors. It’s also true that custom guitars aren’t necessarily great unless they are made by a talented luthier using good materials.
For example, wood selection is one of the most fundamental decisions that goes into the production of a guitar. Large companies buy wood in bulk and will set some level of standard for the parts that will be used for each guitar. But wood is not a uniform material, so even in factory guitars each one can be different and sound different depending on the density and the width of the grain present in the particular pieces of wood used in that guitar.