Feb 11, 2017 at the Buffalo Museum Science Guitar exhibit
The Fender tail… history of Fender guitars played by Buffalo Music Hall Of Fame guitarist Michael Hund inducted in 1992
Get ready to hear the sounds of the legendary fender guitars a musical journey from its birth.The company began as Fender's Radio Service in late 1938 in Fullerton, California. Fender Amplifiers have a long history. Leo Fender began building guitar amps before he started manufacturing guitars. The first of these amps were the K&F models, which were produced between 1945 and 1946. The original Fender amps were tube powered, and the company also started producing solidstate models in the late 1960s.
A custom lap steel guitar made in 1946 for his friend Noel Boggs was probably the very first product of the new company, already sporting the familiar Big "F" logo.
• Michael will take you through the years of fender guitars. In 1951, Fender offered the first mass-produced solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (originally named the 'Broadcaster'; 'Esquire' is a single pickup version),and the first mass-produced electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass). In 1954, Fender mass-produced the popular Stratocaster (Strat) guitar.
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