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	Leo Fender
		Ironically Leo Fender never learned to play guitar himself (although he had played saxophone in high school) but he had close ties to the musicians' community in southern California.
		In creating innovative and highly effective designs that could be efficiently manufactured, Leo Fender was to musical instruments in the 1950s & 60's, what Henry Ford was to the automobile in the 1920s & 30's.
		Fender's business took off in the 1950s, as musicians adopted his Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars and the Precision Bass.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/le/leo_fender.html (534 words)

	Leo Fender
		Ironically Leo Fender never learned to play guitar himself (although he had played saxophone in high school) but he had close ties to the musicians' community in southern California.
		In creating innovative and highly effective designs that could be efficiently manufactured, Leo Fender was to musical instruments in the 1950s & 60's, what Henry Ford was to the automobile in the 1920s & 30's.
		Fender's business took off in the 1950s, as musicians adopted his Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars and the Precision Bass.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/le/leo_fender.html (536 words)

	Fender Musical Instruments History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Clarence Leo Fender was born in Anaheim California in 1909.
		Leo began to formulate the idea of a solid body guitar, he first built one in 1943 or 1944 which proved popular when hired out to local musicians.
		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)

	Leo Fender
		Leo Fender was born August 10, 1909 on his parents farm in Anaheim, CA.
		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)

	Leo Fender
		Fender, der in der kalifornischen Stadt Anaheim geboren wurde, entwickelte schon in jungen Jahren Interesse für Elektrotechnik.
		Leo Fender wollte selbst nie Gitarre spielen lernen, er weigerte sich sogar auch nur einen Akkord zeigen zu lassen (obwohl er in der High School Saxophon spielte), er hatte aber gute Beziehungen zur südkalifornischen Musikerszene, was ihm die Verbreitung seiner Vision erleichterte und er nicht auf eine traditionelle Ansprache über ein Händlernetz angewiesen war.
		Leo Fender war aber bereits 1980 ausgeschieden und gründete noch im selben Jahr mit George Fullerton und Dale Hyatt die Firma G&L Musical Instruments, was zunächst für George und Leo, später für Guitars by Leo stand.
	www.weblexikon.de /Leo_Fender.html (1030 words)

	Leo Fender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fender's early guitar design, known first as the "Broadcaster" and then as the Telecaster, was based on friend Merle Travis's design for a solidbody electric guitar, built for Travis by Paul Bigsby with a single row of tuners.
		Some of Fender's most widely known and loved contributions to music were developed in the 1970s, when Leo Fender designed guitars, basses and amplifiers for the Music Man corporation, and in 1976 designed and released another innovative instrument, the StingRay.
		The company which bears his name, Fender Musical Instrument Corporation, is now one of the largest musical instrument conglomerates in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leo_Fender (1087 words)

	KeyWestArtGallery.com - The Art of Richard Enfantino
		Clarence Leonidas Fender was born on August 10, 1909 on his parent's ranch in their barn.
		Leo Fender invented an improved electric guitar and capitalized on a turning point in music history, the decline of the Big Band Era at the beginning of the post-World War II economic expansion.
		After more guitar innovations, Leo Fender became ill and the company was sold to CBS in 1965 for $13 million.
	www.keywestartgallery.com /private_collection/leo_fender1.htm (439 words)

	Leo Fender Biography - The Free Information Society
		Leo realized that amplifiers should be similarly rugged to withstand the abuse they would receive by traveling musicians, so he designed Fender amplifiers to be extremely rugged.
		Leo felt that a thinner neck would appeal to jazz musicians, and aid in the transition from upright to electric bass.
		Leo continued to refine the designs he had originally created, and received many patents for his later designs of pickups and tremolo systems, and neck designs.
	www.freeinfosociety.com /site.php?postnum=808 (2056 words)

	Fender-Amp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fender's tweed-covered, chrome chassis amps developed a solid reputation as being extremely reliable on the road and also having the most power available at the time.
		Fender's solid state amps now are made in a state of the art facility in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
		Fender currently offers an amazing variety of amps in all stages of technology old and new, from jazz and clean country to stingin' blues and metal a-go-go, Fender has, more than ever, a selection to match the ever-broadening scope of music as we know it today.
	www.fender-amp.com /history.asp (1123 words)

	Fender Australia - Forty Years of the Fender Stratocaster
		Fender's intention was more than simply adding a new guitar to his successful line, which already included the highly popular Telecaster.
		While many players had turned to vintage Stratocasters in the 1970s when CBS owned the Fender company (Leo Fender and Don Randall sold the company to CBS in the mid-60s) an increasing number of 1980s guitarists discovered new Stratocasters made by a revitalized Fender company under new ownership.
		In 1985, the Fender company was purchased from CBS and in fact, a new chapter of Stratocaster history was being written.
	www.fender.com.au /electricguitars/strat_history.shtml (766 words)

	Leo Fender at AllExperts
		Fender and inventor Les Paul are often cited as the two most influential figures in the development of electric instruments in the 20th century.
		However, Leo Fender's most widely known and loved contribution to music had yet to be developed.
		A friendly, modest and unassuming man (his "coffee mug" was a styrofoam cup with the word "Leo" inked on it), he had the lifelong admiration and devotion of his employees, many of whom have remarked that the best working years of their lives were spent under Leo Fender.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/le/leo_fender.htm (1244 words)

	G&L Guitars
		Leo Fender passed away on a rainy day in March of 1991, an event which shook the Music World: The father of modern music was gone.
		Leo was confident that John could make Leo's dreams for GandL's future become reality and felt he could entrust John to continue his work with GandL, in which he took such great pride.
		Leo Fender was a symbol of change and evolution for the benefit of musicians.
	www.glguitars.com /about-GL/index.asp (486 words)

	Automatic Writing: Leo Fender History
		By the late 1940s, Clarence Leonidas Fender, born in a barn on his family's ranch and orange grove in Fullerton, had established himself as a tinkerer with his own radio repair shop on Spadra Road, now Harbor Boulevard.
		Fender developed the famed Stratocaster and the Telecaster in the 1950s.
		After battling strep throat infections for a number of years, Fender sold his company for $13 million to CBS in 1965, a huge sum of money at the time for a music company.
	awstories.blogspot.com /2006/12/leo-fender-history.html (450 words)

	Leo Fender
		Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 - March 21, 1991) was an American who founded Fender Musical Instruments.
		After working as an accountant for the California Highway Department, Fender began working on creating an electric guitar.
		Fender's business took off in the 1950s, as musicians adopted his Telecaster and Stratocaster electric guitars.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/l/le/leo_fender.html (224 words)

	LEO FENDER
		Fender invented an improved electric guitar and capitalized on a turning point in music history, the decline of the Big Band Era at the beginning of the post- World War II economic expansion.
		The single-cutaway Fender "Broadcaster", renamed the Telecaster in 1950, was the first mass market solid bodied electric guitar and a great improvement over existing models.
		Fender employed 600 workers by the mid-Sixties and was an unpretentious, hands-on employer who demanded perfection.
	www.rockabilly.nl /references/messages/leo_fender.htm (608 words)

	Guitars from George and Leo: How Leo Fender and I Built Gandl Guitars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fender Bass by Klaus Blasquiz, X : The Fender Bass, created 40 years ago by the inventive genius of Leo Fender, still remains today as the defi...
		Leo Melamed: Escape to the Futures by Leo Melamed, : He is one of the most powerful figures in the world of finance - a visionary who pioneered the modern future...
		The Fender Bass by J. Black, : When Leo Fender added a bass to his growing family of instruments 50 years ago, he created a new world for m...
	www.tonsofspecials.com /sales.php?136275 (649 words)

	Leo Fender - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Leo Fender - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Fender, Clarence Leo, full name Clarence Leo Fender (1909–1991), American guitarmaker, who created the solid-body electric guitar.
		The central musical instrument in most kinds of rock music is the electric guitar.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Leo_Fender.html (66 words)

	RGM - Lad’s and Beaut’s Leo Fender The Greatist American Artist (Yes Greater than Beatles or Zeppelin) - MOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fender’s early instruments were revolutionary, and their introduction contributed to the birth of something now commonplace: the “musical group”.
		Fender’s early guitar design was based on friend Merle Travis’s design for a solidbody electric guitar, built for Travis by Paul Bigsby with a single row of tuners.
		Fender’s most widely known and loved contributions to music were developed in the 1970.
	mog.com /RGM/blog_post/19286 (1058 words)

	G & L Guitars by Leo Fender, G&L Electric
		It was on that very day that Leo had completed his last prototype instrument, after which he declared to his wife Phyllis that he had given all he can to the musicians of the world.
		Leo was confident that John could make Leo's dreams for GandL's future become reality and felt he could entrust John to continue his work with GandL, in which he took such great pride.
		Leo Fender was a symbol of change and evolution for the benefit of musicians.
	www.guitar.com.au /guitars/electric/g&l/index.htm (532 words)

	Leo Fender - The Sound Heard 'Round the World. - Stagepass.com
		Leo Fender - The Sound Heard 'Round the World.
		He so improved the clarity of the amplified vibrating string that he gave almost every style of music played on the guitar a means to sound better.
		Whether you are a musician, a lover of Fender lore, an instrument collector or curious history buff, your search ends here for the ultimate and definitive book presenting the complete, unedited Fender story.
	www.stagepass.com /resource/leofender.html (280 words)

	Fender Guitar History
		Fender acquired Guild in 1995, signaling a return to ownership by a group of people dedicated to producing the finest value in American-made acoustic and electric guitars.
		Fender had purchased the DeArmond brand of musical instrument pickups in 1997, and then combined the company with Guild to produce an alternative line of high quality, affordable guitars and basses that are modeled after Guild designs.
		Fender became the world leader by defining the sounds we hear, meeting the needs of musicians, creating quality products and backing them up with service and stability.
	www.adirondackguitar.com /fender/FenHist.htm (1507 words)

	Fender Frontman 15g
		Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, initially named the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company,was started by Leo Fender in the 1940s,and is one of the most widely recognised manufacturers of electric guitars, bass guitars and amplifiers in the world.
		Fender Electric Instrument ManufacturingCompany was originally based in Fullerton, California.In 1965, Leo Fender sold his company to the Columbia Broadcasting Corporation, or CBS.
		Fender is particularly important because of its role in bringing electric musical instruments to the masses.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/21150-fender-frontman-15g.html (484 words)

	Leo Fender History - Fendertone.com: the site designed by and for users of Fender musical products
		Leo became interested in electronics around age 13, most likely from his uncle, who had built a radio from parts.
		Leo began dismantling and repairing radios himself as a hobby, never afraid to tinker with electronics to see what the result would be.
		Leo was sharpening the business acumen that would serve him well throughout his career.
	www.blamepro.com /fendertone/history_leo.htm (426 words)

	FENDER GUITARS HISTORY - Stagebeat
		Leo started selling phonograph records on the premises as a sideline, but it was his knowledge of electronics that really got things moving for him.
		However, Leo was a victim of his earlier successes and the guitars competed with the phenomenal success of the Fender range.
		The growing love of Fender guitars and the collectability of the older, pre-CBS models meant that Leo was often approached by musicians with technical questions, which he was always happy to answer.
	www.stagebeat.co.uk /index.php?page_id=30002 (1343 words)

	Fender Players Club - The Strat Chronicles
		Fender tells the amazing details of how he was inspired by both a Croatian band and an ancient African relic he saw in a museum!
		Leo Fender was so far in advance of anybody else, developing the Strat to the point where it just canít be bettered, even now.
		Also included with the book is a special audio CD featuring interviews with Leo Fender, as well as guitar wizard Greg Koch's wacky observations on the musical styles of Strat players and their innovations, and musical examples of their playing from the '50s to the present day.
	www.fenderplayersclub.com /home/strat_chronicles.htm (1249 words)

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		Leo worked with Fender employees Freddie Tavares and George Fullerton, as well as musicians Bill Carson, Rex Gallion, and others to understand needs and check assumptions during the design process.
		Leo's goals were to build the best solid body electric guitar ever and to expand the Fender product line to increase sales.
		It was certainly the most difficult color for Fender to apply since it required an additional step of using a metallic basecoat before a translucent red color coat.
	www.lycos.com /info/fender--leo-fender.html (272 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Brand Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		IN THE MIDST OF ITS SCRAMBLE to compete with Fender by developing its radical Flying V and Explorer guitars, the Gibson company likely didn’t realize that Leo Fender was similarly trying to loosen its grip on the jazz guitar market of the late 1950s.
		Perhaps in an attempt to emulate the tones of Gibson’s patented humbucking pickups, Leo opted to equip the Jazzmaster with pickups that had wider, flatter coils.
		Leo designed the unit for use with the heavy-gauge strings that were more popular in the ’50s.
	www.vintageguitar.com /brands/details.asp?ID=170 (1147 words)

	Guitar Player - Sunshine, Surf, Girls, Hot Rods, and Guitars! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Leo Fender’s uncanny knack for solving musicians’ problems was only one factor in his company’s success.
		While Fender was apparently content to evolve the early version of the “Fender guitar” (the Telecaster) into its next incarnation (the Strat), Randall insisted on having an entire line of guitars and amps—another incalculable contribution to the company’s success.
		In Fender catalogs of the early ’60s, guitars were posed like paintings on artists’ easels or alongside ornate picture frames and sleek designer chairs of molded plastic.
	www.guitarplayer.com /story.asp?storycode=16575 (1806 words)

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