The Fender Telecaster guitar has quite rightly been hugely popular throughout the years due to its good looks and distinctive sound, which is extremely effective in blues and country music. It has of course very often been used in other genres too.
The guitar has also found many famous guitar playing admirers through the years including Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards, Andy Summers and Jimmy Page.
Listed below are 10 quick facts about this infamous six string electric guitar:
1. Leo Fender developed the in Telecaster in 1948 in sunny California. This was a period in time that many top guitar makers were experimenting and producing designs. As a result the Fender Telecaster had to be very quick off the mark.
2. The guitar entered onto the scene in 1949 under the Broadcaster name and is still produced today in one form or another. There have been numerous impersonators but the original is the all-important model.
3. In 1950 the first one pickup model hit production and was branded the Esquire.
4. As far as the wood used for construction goes, the neck and the fingerboard were constructed from one piece of Maple. This was duly bolted to a body made from Ash or Alder, which was a more economical process than Gibson's much more involved 'set neck' style.
5. A semi-acoustic model of the guitar arrived in the stores in approximately 1968 and was branded the Thinline. The 1969 version of this guitar incorporated a Mahogany body and by the time 1972 arrived the body was Swamp Ash.
6. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame used a 1958 Telecaster that was a generous gift from Jeff Beck on the now globally famous guitar solo on the amazing track Stairway to Heaven, from Led Zeppelin's fourth album. Lots of people still think that this jaw-dropping solo was played on either a Gibson SG double neck or a Les Paul but it wasn't.
7. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones famously put to use his Custom guitar in an particularly unconventional way during a live concert. Richards took off his guitar from around his neck and used it to beat off an overzealous and potentially mad fan who ran onstage.
8. The Telecaster bridge pickup sits on top of a steel plate to improve the magnetic field which also helps to give this pickup its distinctive tone.
9. Fender decided to modify the electronics in 1952 to make use of a tone control into the circuit for the guitar pickups.
10. In 1950 somewhere between the Broadcaster model and the eventual Telecaster, any guitars manufactured during this interim period had no name and subsequently are often referred to as Nocasters.
If you have not ever tried out one of these excellent guitars, head on down to your local guitar outlet a give one a test drive. I'm sure you will love it.
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