SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS ON THE WIRE
Collecting Fender History
Most collectors begin with guitars and eventually discover that they are collecting stories. The instruments themselves answer only part of the question. Why did certain models succeed while others disappeared? Why did specifications change? How did a small Southern California company become one of the most recognizable names in modern music? The answers are scattered across catalogs, factory documents, advertisements, artist relationships, production records, and decades of accumulated lore.
Dave Hunter has spent much of his career gathering those pieces together.
His three recent Fender volumes— Fender Telecaster 75 Years, Fender Stratocaster: 70 Years, and Fender: The Official Illustrated History— approach that history from different angles. One follows the guitar that launched
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