Fender Stratocaster

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The Fender Statocaster was designed by the Fender Guitar company during the 1950’s. Production line Stratocasters were first sold during the mid 1950’s for around $250. The basic model came with a two-tone ’sunburst’ finish, chrome hardware, and plastic components.

The Stratocaster is an extreemely versatile instrument. The guitar has 3 pickups placed at the neck, middle, and bridge and help generate a wide range of tones. As such the Stratocaster is used in a wide range of musical styles from country to rock. Guitarists such from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton through to U2’s The Edge to Robert Cray loved the versatility it bought. An early-model Stratocaster, was used by Buddy Holly’s, and he was among the first players to help the Fender Stratocaster become the standard in rock and roll.

Other manufacturers began imitating Fenders innovations and styles almost immediately and today there are many companies that produce this style of guitar. Usually the Statocaster style guitar has a bolt on neck, all tuners on the top of the headstock, a twin cutaway body, 3 single coil pickups, and a tremelo. However there are many derivatives

These days, Fender offers a huge array of vintage Stratocasters, modern varients and reissues. They have many factories supplying guitars from all over the world. In common with many other guitar manufacturers Fender also offers Artist Series guitars, which feature accurate replicas of the Stratocasters played by famous guitarists.

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  1. Stanley Featherstonehaugh on October 16th, 2009 10:09 pm

    While Strats are immensely popular, I know of but a handful of players who make these originally modular and thus piece by piece disposablde guitars - think the rich tones emitted by the virtuoso Buddy Holly for a supreme example of this. Those who buy Strats off the shelf are being, so far as I cam tell, robbed by means of sales omission.
    (01) Jimi used a lighter weight guitar while performing, the Stratocaster (but he could’ve made a broomstick and a single strand of twine sound exquisite. Jimi largely recorded with a Flying V through bif Fender amps;(02) while Jeff Beck plays a souped up Strat, beariong buy cosmetic similarities to a stock one, his eclat came from his earlier work, on which he invariably played a Les Paul; (3) Uli John Roth, with the Scorpions, played a Strat at least part of the time, but his was clearly souped up as well; he has abandoned brandname guitars entirely now, and plays a custome built Sky Guitar. Eric Johnson clearly plays a hugely modified Strat, as does Barry Richman whenever he plays his. Unless you can afford a customized (to your specs and tastes) Strat, you’re as well off getting an Epiphone, particularly one with a good whammy bar and better than stock tuners.
    Strats do, however, kick Ibanez, BC Rick et al around the block, but that is faint praise. ;-}

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