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Topic: Fender Broadcaster

	Leo Fender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Fender Broadcaster, launched around 1950, was the world's first commercially available guitar with a solid wooden body and bolt-on neck. Leo Fender's whole design was geared to mass production and to a simple, yet effective electric instrument.
		The Fender Stratocaster is perhaps the most popular and most emulated solid electric guitar ever. Launched in early 1954, it was designed by Leo Fender together with his colleague Freddie Tavares. The two were also helped by the contributions of country musician Bill Carson.
		Fender had already pioneered the solid electric with their Telecaster. The stylish Strat, epitome of 1950s tallfin-flash design, built upon fender's idea of a guitar engineered for mass-production rather than hand-crafted for individual players.
	www.rockabillyhall.com /LeoFender1.html (537 words)

	Fender Musical Instruments Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fender is particularly important because of its role in bringing solid body electric guitars to the masses.
		Fender offered the first mass-produced solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (originally named the 'Broadcaster', 'Esquire' is a single pickup version); the first mass-produced electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass); and the enormously popular Stratocaster (Strat) guitar.
		While Fender was not the first to manufacture electric guitars, as other companies and luthiers had produced electric guitars since the late 1920s, none were as commercially successful as Fender's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fender (1474 words)

	06/2003 GuitarPlayer Input/Output: George Gruhn's Rare Bird - 1950 Fender Broadcaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Broadcaster is essentially the same in appearance as the Telecaster, with the exception of the name on the peghead decal, and the fact that it doesn’t have the exposed diagonal rout for the rhythm-pickup wires under the pickguard.
		In February 1951, the Broadcaster name was removed from the peghead due to a conflict with the Gretsch Broadkaster trademark, which that company had used continuously on drums and banjos since the 1920s.
		Broadcasters in good condition are so scarce that it’s difficult to assess a current market rate, but it’s my opinion that an exceptionally clean, original example could easily bring as much as $50,000.
	archive.guitarplayer.com /archive/0603/0603_IO4.htm (419 words)

	Fender Musical Instruments History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Clarence Leo Fender was born in Anaheim California in 1909.
		The Fender Broadcaster, launched around 1950, was the world's first commercially available guitar with a solid wooden body and bolt-on neck.
		But Leo fender and is small workforce in Fullerton, California must have been delighted with the new Telecaster name, is thoroughly modern reference to the emerging medium of television just right for an equally innovative device like the Telecaster, the first commercially marketed solid electric guitar.
	www.guitarriffin.com /fendhist.html (701 words)

	Broadcaster Fender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Unveiled for 1999 webcast are the 70s style Ritchie Blackmore Stratocaster Harley Davidson 90th Anniversary Stratocaster and the Leo Fender Commemorative Broadcaster which was Although it was originally known as the Broadcaster the Fender Telecaster is the original solid body electric guitar for the Fender guitars line.
		The Fender Broadcaster (Telecaster or Tele) guitar is one of the most popular solidbody electric guitar ever made and is the solidbody guitar that started it all.
		Fender has many models in production radio but their two most popular models are the Stratocaster and the Telecaster.
	www.midnightwest.com /broadcaster-fender.htm (440 words)

	Fender ~ Tele ~ Strat ~ Big Sis Media
		Called the Fender Broadcaster (renamed the Telecaster in 1950), it was produced under the auspices of the Fender Electric Instruments Company, which Fender had formed in 1946.
		In 1951 the Fender Precision Bass, the world's first electric bass guitar, was unveiled, and in 1954 the Fender Stratocaster was put on the market.
		Fender, who never learned to play the instrument he revolutionized, sold his manufacturing and distribution companies to CBS Corporation in 1965, a concession to his failing health.
	home.earthlink.net /~bigsismedia/strattele.html (469 words)

	guitar greats
		Fender's instruments - which also include the Stratocaster, the Precision bass (the first electric bass) and some of the music world's most coveted amplifiers - revolutionized popular music in general and rock and roll in particular.
		While the question of who designed the first successful solid-body guitar is still being debated, Fender was the first to successfully design and market such an instrument with the introduction of the Broadcaster in 1948.
		In 1954, Fender introduced the Stratocaster, a flashier instrument featuring a contoured, double-cutaway body, three (as opposed to two) single-coil pickups and a revolutionary string-bending (tremolo) unit.
	www.geocities.com /guitargreats/fender.html (295 words)

	Welcome to www.fenderguitarshop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fender’s iconic instruments (such as the Telecaster®, Stratocaster®, Precision Bass® and Jazz Bass® guitars) are known the world over as the instruments that started the rock revolution, and they continue to be highly prized among today’s hottest guitarists and collectors alike.
		Although CBS purchased Fender (officially) on January 3rd 1965, it took some time till the guitars changed (though by mid 1964, six months before CBS bought Fender, things were already "on the way down").
		By February 1951, the Broadcaster was renamed the Telecaster (though the guitars didn't actually have a "Telecaster" decal on them until the summer of 1951), because of a naming conflict with a trademarked Gretsch drum line.
	www.fenderguitarshop.com (1506 words)

	Fender Telecaster Guitar Discussion Forum
		Fender was using up their neckplates with numbers under 100,000.
		While there have been periods where dramatic changes have occurred, for example: the transition periods between Leo's Fender and the CBS years, as well as the transition between CBS' Fender and the current ownership, generally speaking, most models are feature specific and do not change from year to year.
		But once again, due to the modular nature of Fender's production methods, and the fact that most serial numbers schemes are not sequential and usually overlap from between 2 to 4 years, (from the early days of Fender, through to the mid 1980s), dating by the serial number is not an exact science.
	www.tdpri.com /serialnumbers.htm (2271 words)

	Guitar Player - Fender Broadcaster
		Retailing for $169.95, the Broadcaster was the first solidbody electric that Fender made and sold in any significant number (far fewer single-pickup Esquires were built during that time), but its name only lasted until early 1951, when Gretsch pointed out its prior use of “Broadkaster” on some of its drum products.
		Fender initially responded by cutting the Broadcaster part off the headstock decal, leaving only the Fender logo (hence, the famous “No-Caster” series), and, eventually, changed the name to Telecaster, which was coined by the head of Fender sales, Don Randall.
		The Broadcaster changed everything, and to hold and play one now is to time-travel back to an era when American technology was on a rampage.
	www.guitarplayer.com /story.asp?storyCode=12799 (905 words)

	Vintage Fender Telecaster - Del 1
		Orginalet av Fender Telecaster har två mikrofoner, en liten enspolig pickup täckt av en kromad kåpa i halspositionen, och en större enspolig pickup monterad i stallet.
		De första Fender Broadcasters som tillverkades hade ingen halsskena, och dessa gitatarrer är i dag högt värderade samlarobjekt (som alla tidiga Broadcasters och Telecasters).
		Serienummren för Fender Broadcaster bestod som mest av tre siffror, och alla Fender Telecaster tillverkade innan 1954 hade som mest 4 siffror.
	elgitarrer.com /artiklar/vintage-fender-telecaster-part-1.shtml (946 words)

	ELEVEN consulting
		The Fender Stratocaster is no less than one of the most popular, recognizable, influential, and best-selling electric guitars ever made.
		Fender's competition touted the carved tops, glued-in necks, and ornate fretboard inlays of their guitars, which were selling quite well.
		Leo Fender, a solitary man with a small team of like-minded individuals, spent countless hours thinking through all the tough issues required to make a hunk of wood with steel wires and a couple of magnets into a huge artistic and business success.
	www.elevenconsulting.com /articles/article_fender_strat.htm (1106 words)

	Brief information, history and photos of vintage Fender Telecaster guitars.
		The Fender Telecaster was first introduced in 1951 as the "Fender Broadcaster" however Gretsch owned rights to the name and Fender renamed the guitar the "Telecaster" or "Tele" as it is affectionately know as.
		In 1968 Fender introduced the "Thin Line" Telecaster with traditional hardware and a single F hole in the body plus and a new pick guard design.
		The Fender Esquire was very similar to a Telecaster and essentially a single pickup version of the Tele.
	www.rocknrollvintage.com /information-on-Fender-telecaster-guitars.htm (526 words)

	Fender Telecaster Chronology
		Starting in the summer of 1951, Fender adopted the name "Telecaster" for this model, and started using new decals after all the old clipped decals were used.
		This variant was made from 1968 to 1971 and said "Fender Telecaster" only on the peghead (as per regular solidbody Telecasters), the truss rod adjusted at the butt-end of the neck, and had a pearloid pickguard going from the neck pickup to the tone control.
		This guitar was reissued by Fender of Japan in the late 1980's and is a very close reproduction.
	www.adirondackguitar.com /fender/telecaster_dating.htm (656 words)

	Fender Guitar History and Information
		Twenty years later, CBS decided Fender guitars were not their line of business to be in so they sold it to small group of investors.
		Although it was originally known as the Broadcaster, the Fender Telecaster is the original solid body electric guitar for the Fender guitars line.
		Similar to the Telecaster the Fender Stratocaster has a maple neck with either rosewood or maple fretboard, and the body is typically made of either Alder or Ash wood.
	www.morphis.com /articles/guitar_guide/fender_guitars.asp (520 words)

	Fender Broadcaster Telecaster guitar 1950 1951 Fender Tele guitar collector info vintage
		Originality and condition are the two most important features of a vintage Fender guitar, and Fender Broadcaster, Esquires and Telecasters (Teles) do seem to have been easily modified (due to their "bolt together" nature).
		The majority of Broadcasters have body and neck dates of November 1950 and usually have a serial number of 0xxx or 00xx (the lastest Broadcaster serial number i have heard of was in the 08xx range and the earliest documented is serial number 0005), but 12/50 and 01/51 Broadcasters do exist.
		Serial number range for the 1950 Fender Broadcaster are generally 0001 to 2000 (stamped into the bridge plate).
	www.provide.net /~cfh/50tele.html (762 words)

	Fender® News
		Fender introduces the Jazzmaster® guitar, the electric violin and the weirder-than-weird Eccofonic echo unit.
		Fender introduces the semi-hollow Thinline Telecaster, Bronco amplifier, Pink Paisley and Blue Flower Telecaster, Montego and LTD hollow-body archtop guitars, Palomino acoustic, Orchestration + brass/wind effects unit (!), Dimension IV effects unit, Fuzz Wah pedal, Fender Blender™ distortion pedal and Bandmaster Reverb amp.
		Fender SFX® (Stereo Field Expansion) Amplifier Technology is announced, and the Sunn line of amps is unveiled at the winter NAMM Show in Los Angeles.
	www.fender.co.uk /news/index.php?display_article=93 (3739 words)

	Blank Sheet Music .net Musician Forum - Fender's iconic Strat Guitar turns 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		But Clarence Leo Fender, known as Leo, was the primary force behind the icon's conception and refinement.
		The Strat, as it is commonly known, evolved from the Fender Broadcaster, introduced in 1950 and later renamed the Telecaster.
		Fender is also producing the 50th anniversary edition of the American Deluxe Stratocaster.
	www.blanksheetmusic.net /musician_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=155 (1093 words)

	Seymour Duncan Catalog
		The Broadcaster had a ferrous elevator plate on the bottom of the pickup to reflect the magnetic field up to the strings, and so my STL-lB does, too.
		Fender cut the pole pieces to different lengths for each string to get the maximum of both sustain and tone; the unexpected interphasing of the staggered magnetic fields gave birth to the unique vintage Strat sound.
		I wind the coil with the same gauge wire Fender used, with the same film insulation, and I keep the wire tension balanced during each carefully counted turn.
	www.colin.org /Copywriter/SeymourDuncan/Catalog--strats.html (799 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE ELECTRIC GUITAR
		His simply constructed Fender Broadcaster of 1950 (renamed Telecaster in 1952 as the result of a trademark dispute), with its bolt-on neck, was initially derided by competitors as too simple and lacking in craftsmanship.
		We do know that Leo Fender was already familiar with the concept of solid-body construction, since he had made lap-steel guitars out of solid planks of wood in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Fender and Gibson weren’t the only companies making solid-body electric guitars, but they were the pioneers, and their instruments are among the most sought after on the vintage market.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/2004/1/2004_1_12.shtml (4140 words)

	Fender Telecaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fender added a truss rod to the two single coil pickup version in late 1950 and changed the name to the Broadcaster.
		The Fender Telecaster® Highway 1™ is one of the least expensive American made telecasters currently made.
		The Fender 72 Telecaster Thinline is a Replica of the classic originally made in 1972.
	www.kellyindustries.com /guitars/fender_telecaster.html (883 words)

	The Electric Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fender invented the very first solid-body electric guitar to be mass-produced: the Fender Broadcaster.
		Fender's other inventions (including the first electric bass and the world's most popular electric guitar - the Fender Stratocaster) have earned him a place in history as one of the most important developers of rock and roll.
		The Fender Stratocaster was developed by Leo Fender in the early 1950s.
	www.cdps.k12.ms.us /chs/telef005/elem.htm (1683 words)

	Fender Telecaster, Fender Tele, Telecaster, Fender Guitars
		Introduced as the Fender Broadcaster in 1951 and later renamed Telecaster, it was the first solid-body electric guitar to be produced in mass production.
		Even though Fender has gone on to produce other popular guitars and bass guitars, the Telecaster has never gone out of style.
		With more than 50 different guitars lending their uniqueness to the Telecaster family, the legend is growing and there's no slowing it down.
	www.allaboutfender.com /telecaster.htm (350 words)

	Strat-Talk.com -- Fender Stratocaster Discussion Forum
		In mid-1954 Fender changed the location of serial numbers to the neckplate.
		As was stated earlier, when CBS sold Fender in 1985 to an investment group the company didn't have any factories in the US.
		In the last 20 years, Fender has introduced many different serial numbers schemes, depending on the country the Fender guitar was made (USA=MIA, Mexico=MIM, Japan=MIJ, Korea=MIK, etc).
	www.strat-talk.com /index.php?pid=4 (2047 words)

	Guitar History : Fender Telecaster / Broadcaster/ Nocaster
		Developed by Leo Fender and launched in 1950, the name of the guitar was soon changed to Telecaster to avoid confusion with the name of a drum model produced by Gretsch.
		Originally known as the Broadcaster, Fender ®had to drop that name because Gretsch® already had trademarked the name "Broadkaster"® for a set of drums.
		In between, some of these soon-to-be-Telecasters® went out as so-called "Nocasters": The name "Fender"® remained on the headstock, but the rest of the decal was cut off; hence, the decal had no "caster" on it at all.
	www.geocities.com /classicguitars/History/Fender-Telecaster.html (220 words)

	Fender Esquire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fender Esquire is a solid body electric guitar manufactured by Fender, and was the first guitar sold by Fender in 1950.
		Around the spring of 1950, Fender had completed a neck pickup design, which was smaller than the lead pickup and was encased in a metal shielding cover.
		Unlike the pinewood prototype, the bodies (thinner than the Broadcaster's at 1.5", instead of 1.75") were made of solid ash.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fender_Esquire (1119 words)

	1951 Fender Telecaster Nocaster guitar 51 Fender Tele guitar collector info vintage pre-CBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Fender Telecaster (Nocaster) guitar is one of the most popular solidbody electric guitar ever made, and is the solidbody guitar that started it all.
		Originality and condition are the two most important features of a vintage Fender guitar, and Fender Telecaster, Nocaster, Broadcaster, and Esquires (Teles) do seem to have been easily modified (due to their "bolt together" nature).
		The placement of the Fender logo between spring 1951 and late 1951 is parallel to the neck end and not at an angle, as seen before and after last 1951.
	www.provide.net /~cfh/51tele.html (514 words)

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