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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.
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.