FENDER AMERICAN PERFORMER STRATOCASTER AND TELECASTER
May 01, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS BY PETER HODGSON .
There are plenty of reasons the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster have endured since the 1950s, but perhaps the most important is that they’re both instruments that have been able to subtly adapt to changes in technology while still retaining their core essence. ‘Technology’, in this case, doesn’t mean changes in the processes used to build the instruments, but rather the player-friendly aspects of the instruments themselves.
Originally, the Stratocaster had a three-way pickup selector switch, and players had to modify these
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