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10 Interesting Facts About The Fender Telecaster Guitar

10 Interesting Facts About The Fender Telecaster Guitar

By: Todd Witzken

The Fender Telecaster guitar has quite rightly been incredibly popular for many years as a result of its good looks and very individual sound, which is very effective in blues and country music. It has of course very frequently been put to use in other genres too.

The guitar has not surprisingly acquired many famous admirers throughout the years including Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Andy Summers and Bruce Springsteen.

Below are 10 interesting and amusing facts relating to this infamous six string electric guitar:

1. Leo Fender developed the in Telecaster in 1948 in sunny California. This was a period in time that many top manufacturers were experimenting and producing exciting designs. As a result the Fender Telecaster had to be extremely quick off the mark.

2. The guitar arrived on the scene as the Broadcaster model in 1949 and is still produced today in one form or another. There have without doubt been numerous impersonators but the original is the one that counts.

3. In 1950 the first one pickup model hit production and was known as the Esquire.

4. As for the wood used, the neck and the fingerboard were formed from one piece of Maple. This was subsequently bolted to a body made from Ash or Alder, which was a less expensive process than Gibson's much more involved 'set neck' approach.

5. A semi-acoustic style of the guitar arrived on the scene in approximately 1968 and was branded the Thinline. The 1969 version of this guitar utilised a Mahogany body and by the time 1972 arrived the body was Swamp Ash.

6. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame used a 1958 Telecaster that was given to him by Jeff Beck on the now infamous guitar solo on the amazing song Stairway to Heaven, from Led Zeppelin's fourth album. Many continue to think that this jaw-dropping solo was played on either a Gibson SG double neck or a Les Paul but it wasn't.

7. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones now famously put to use his Custom guitar in an particularly unconventional way during a live concert. Richards used his guitar to beat off an over-keen and potentially mad fan who ran onstage.

8. The Telecaster bridge pickup sits on top of a steel plate to expand the magnetic field which additionally helps to give this pickup its lovely and distinctive tone.

9. Fender finally decided to modify the electronics in 1952 to incorporate a tone control into the circuit for the guitar pickups.

10. In 1950 somewhere between the Broadcaster model and the Telecaster, any guitars made during this interim period were without a name and subsequently are often referred to as Nocasters.

If you've never tested one of these great guitars, head on down to your nearest guitar shop a give one a trial run. I'm sure you will love it.

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The author has been a keen guitarist for many years and loves to play, repair and build electric guitars. He recommends Tub Guitar Pickups for excellent Telecaster Pickups and also recommends their excellent Guitar Blog. They can be found at: http://www.tubguitarpickups.co.uk

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10 Interesting Facts About The Fender Telecaster Guitar

By: Todd Witzken