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FENDER

down its 75th year in business, Fender continues to show it can still get great value and contemporary performance out of designs that have been with us since the middle of the last century. That premise virtually defines the newly released Player Plus Series, Fender’s new step up from 2018’s Player Series, and is perhaps most fully embodied in the Player Plus Telecaster. This guitar exemplifies the marriage of golden-age originality — that of the first mass-marketed solidbody electric guitar, no less — and 21st century upgrades, resulting in a guitar that retains the spirit of the original in an adaptation better suited to the demands of

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