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3 unusual facts about Fender Telecaster


Broadcaster

Fender Telecaster, first known as the Broadcaster, a guitar made by Fender.

Fender Telecaster

Clayton Orr "Doc" Kauffman, built a crude wooden guitar as a pickup test rig, local country players started asking to borrow it for gigs.

Mad Head Love / Poppin' Apathy

Yonezu is shown performing different instruments such as a red Fender Telecaster electric guitar and a keyboard, as well as holding a recording device and listening through headphones.


Ben Averch

Averch uses a variety of electric guitars on his solo albums, including Paul Reed Smith Swamp Ash Special, Gibson Les Paul and Fender Telecaster.

Forbon

It was used on the original pickups that Leo Fender (founder of Fender Guitars) created for the Stratocaster, Telecaster, and the Precision Bass.

Gibson Les Paul

In 1950, with the introduction of the radically innovative Fender Telecaster to the musical market, solid-body electric guitars became a public craze (hollow-body electric guitars have more acoustic resonance but are, therefore, more prone to amplifier feedback and have less natural note duration "sustain".) In reaction, Gibson Guitar president Ted McCarty brought guitarist Les Paul into the company as a consultant.

Ted Greene

He would also make occasional live appearances at clubs in the San Fernando Valley, usually playing a Fender Telecaster.

Third-party accessories for the Wii Remote

At the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, Nyko revealed a similar guitar controller for the Wii, a replica of a butterscotch blonde Fender Telecaster.


see also

Fender Telecaster Bass

Victor Damiani, bass player on the first and second Cake albums, used a second version Fender Telecaster Bass on the Fashion Nugget album.

Nigel Gavin

His favourite electric guitars are a Fender Telecaster and an Ibanez 7-string, both of which he uses with a variety of effects.