Nobody disputes the fact that the Jazzmaster was designed for jazz guitarists, so it’s hard to understand why Leo Fender imagined all those ‘one tone for everything’ archtop huggers would be drawn to ...

Leo Fender’s legacy revolutionizing modern music has been well chronicled at the Fullerton Museum Center. Starting out as a tinkerer in his radio repair shop, Fender went on to create and mass produce ...

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

The post Fender Will Sell More Guitars in 2020 Than Any Other Year in History appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Who said rock is dead? The guitar certainly isn’t. Fender has reported it will ...

It's an iconic design and an iconic name. Born in 1950, the Telecaster is the guitar that changed the game for Fender – and 2025 marks 75 years of the firm’s most enduring design. If, among the ...

Innovation is about more than the people who create a product, or the companies that back them. The history of the electric guitar shows that the musicians who worked the instrument were as much a ...

From heavy metal shredding to country twang, no one guitar is built the same. The nuances of guitars, such as the versatile tone and the varying bodies, differentiate brands and, more importantly, ...

Having already produced the fantastic Precision and Jazz basses, Fender's third bass model was actually something of a shock. In 1961, hot on the tails of the Jazz Bass, the Bass VI was released but ...

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month this April with a look at five of the most exciting electric guitars at the National Museum of American History. Megan Salocks April is an important month for the ...

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Fender is one of the leaders in the guitar industry and we recently visited the guitar giant's Los Angeles office to speak with the CEO of the company Andy Mooney, who not only took us through a ...