D-Shap Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Just found this on the net, some i know lots I didn't https://www.soundunlimited.co.uk/articles/fender_timeline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere! Edited June 9, 2016 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I'd forgotten that the P bass actually predates the strat a bit, thought they came out about same time. Not much of an instrument historian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1465465405' post='3068421'] Amazing how he came up with the Strat, just like that, fully-formed and apparently out of nowhere! [/quote] ??? I always thought the Strat was the bastard love-child of a Precision and a Telecaster ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I love this line ... [color=#444444]Leo needed an amp to run it through though, so he built the Bassman amp.[/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) [quote name='lojo' timestamp='1465493088' post='3068775'] I love this line ... [color=#444444]Leo needed an amp to run it through though, so he built the Bassman amp.[/color] [/quote] He also needed strings for his new 'bass' instrument. [u][i]One of the most important features of the Precision Bass was its scale length, which Leo Fender, after careful consideration and lengthy experimentation, set at 34”. Fender also contracted one of the nation’s largest string manufacturers, the V.C. Squier Company of Battle Creek, Mich., to make strings for the new instrument (these were flat-wound; the brighter-sounding round-wound bass strings prevalent today were still well more than a decade away).[/i][/u] [url="http://www2.fender.com/experience/guitarchive/the-precision-bass-in-the-1950s/"]http://www2.fender.c...s-in-the-1950s/[/url] Edited June 9, 2016 by Hobbayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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