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The Making Of Fender Guitars Part 2

If you missed the first installment on Fender Guitars, check out  The Making of Fender Guitars Part 1.
In January 1965, owing to poor health, Leo Fender sold the Fender Guitar Company to Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS for 13 million dollars.
The sale caused grave concern among players and collectors as many thought that with the [...]

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The Making Of Fender Guitars Part 1

Think guitar and you think of Fender. The name that has been synonymous with electric guitars for over fifty years, Fender Guitars have been instrumental in bringing about the rock revolution of the 50s and 60s.
The Fender electric guitar was born out of the need to eliminate feedback. In the 1930s, manufacturers had experimented with [...]

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All About The Guitar – An Overview

The guitar is the most played instrument in the world of music and the oldest surviving acoustic guitar is believed to have been made around 1779 in Italy by Gaetano Vinaccia. However evidence of “guitar like” instruments have been dated back about 5000 years!
Electric guitars on the other hand are a reasonably new development in [...]

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