The 'Stratocaster' is a model of which make of guitar?
"name. In 1954, Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or ""Strat"". It was positioned as a deluxe model and offered various product improvements and innovations over the Telecaster. These innovations included an ash or alder double-cutaway body design for badge assembly with an integrated vibrato mechanism (called a ""synchronized tremolo"" by Fender, thus beginning a confusion of the terms that still continues), three single-coil pickups, and body comfort contours. Leo Fender is also credited with developing the first commercially successful electric bass called the Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951. Gibson, like many guitar manufacturers, had long offered semi-acoustic guitars with"
"many other jazz and fusion players. Kotzen, since around 2007, has opted to stop using guitar picks and been playing exclusively with his fingers ever since. Kotzen has used Fender electric guitars for most of his career, most notably his signature model Telecasters and Stratocasters, as well as other custom-made models. Currently, there are two Richie Kotzen signature models made by Fender Japan – a Stratocaster (STR-145RK) and a Telecaster (TLR-155RK). Both guitars feature ash bodies with laminated flame maple caps, maple necks and one piece maple fretboards with abalone dot inlays and 22 super jumbo frets. The Telecaster model"
"acknowledging it's similarity to a Stratocaster, Matt Blackett of Guitar Player magazine ultimately said, ""The Silver Sky absolutely delivers on the promise of being a damn-near-perfect version of this type of guitar."" The magazine named its ""Editor's Pick."" The Fender Custom Shop made a limited run of 83 replica Black One Stratocasters. Each one was carefully relic'd by masterbuilder John Cruz. All pieces were sold in 24 hours. In 2010, Fender announced a production model of Mayer's ""The Black One"" guitar. Un-relic'd production versions of the guitar were produced for a limited run of 500 worldwide. In addition, full production"
"Fender Stratocaster, a thirteenth-birthday gift from his father, along with Mesa Boogie amplification and more recently Hamilton amplifiers. He now uses a variety of guitars such as Paul Reed Smith, Ernie Ball Music Man and Ovation Guitars, as well as a cream-coloured Fender Telecaster, and Garrison acoustics. Baker uses these specific guitar models on stage: His amplifier and effects are: Rob Baker (guitarist) Rob Baker (born April 12, 1962) is a Canadian guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. He has also released an album with the side project Stripper's Union in"
"of Fender guitars to compete with Stratocaster copies, as the Stratocaster became more popular. Squier guitars have been manufactured in Japan, Korea, Mexico, India, Indonesia, China and the United States of America. Fender Musical Instruments Corporation Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers. Fender produces acoustic guitars, electric basses, bass amplifiers and public address equipment, but is best known for its solid-body electric guitars and bass guitars, particularly the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Precision bass, and the Jazz bass. The company was founded in Fullerton, California, by Clarence Leonidas ""Leo"" Fender in"
"Fender Starcaster The Fender Starcaster is a semi-hollowbody electric guitar made by the Fender company. The Starcaster was part of Fender's attempt to enter the semi-hollowbody market, which was dominated by Gibson's ES-335 and similar designs. The Starcaster was designed by Gene Fields to be a high quality instrument, although it was manufactured at a time when Fender's standards had lowered considerably. Unlike most semi-hollow guitars which had their necks set in the bodies in the traditional style, the Starcaster retained Fender's bolt-on neck design, which at the time, used a three-bolt joint. The Starcaster was in production from 1976"
"Yamaha RGX The Yamaha RGX and RGZ electric guitars Series are manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation and bear a close resemblance to the Ibanez RG series, the Jackson Soloist and other ""superstrat"" enhanced copies of the Fender Stratocaster. These Taiwan-made instruments were introduced in 1987. RGX Series guitars often have 24 or more frets and a bolt-on neck. Some high-end models use a neck-through-body design. Some come with Yamaha active pickups, two single coils and one humbucker. Most of these instruments were generally known as RGZ, including the RGZ820R, a custom plaid graphic model with two humbuckers and a Floyd"
"4 hidden, high powered pickups under the pickguard. They were never made available to the public and the 6 known production models were given away as promotions to shops around the Fullerton, California area. The Type II variation has three pickups, with the bridge pickup slanted as upon a Stratocaster. It also has seven switches and four knobs. The thinking behind the model was to combine the ideas behind the Stratocaster and Jaguar guitars while adding some new features to increase versatility. This instrument is a tremolo guitar, ice blue (now aged to green) with a matching headstock. It has"
"tone control. Traditional Stratocasters have a single volume, but have separate tone controls for the neck and middle pickup, with no tone control for the bridge pickup. Traditional Stratocasters also have a rout on the face of the guitar for a somewhat large, chromed, and angled output jack. This is missing from the Prodigy. It instead uses the third hole in the pickguard (which would normally be for the middle pickup tone knob) as the mounting position for the output jack. While Tony Bacon's book ""50 Years of Fender"" mentions the Prodigy as being ""among the first Fender guitars to"
"(648 mm) scale with 22 medium-jumbo frets, die-cast tuners and a 3-ply pickguard. The bridge was an American Telecaster series through-the-body model with 6 individually adjustable stainless steel saddles. The Parsons/Green B-Bender device was factory-installed in the routed-out back of the guitar and covered by a chrome plate. This model was available finished in Candy Apple Red, Black, Vintage White or Brown Sunburst, and was made in the United States. In the fall of 1998, the two-pickup system was replaced by a three-pickup configuration similar to the Stratocaster layout. The neck and bridge pickups were replaced with the hotter Delta"
"solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (originally named the Broadcaster for two-pickup models and Esquire for single-pickup). Following its success, Fender created the first mass-produced electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass). In 1954, Fender unveiled the Stratocaster (""Strat"") guitar. With the Telecaster and Precision Bass having been on the market for some time, Leo Fender was able to incorporate input from working musicians into the Stratocaster's design. The company began as Fender's Radio Service in late 1938 in Fullerton, California. As a qualified electronics technician, Fender had repaired radios, phonographs, home audio amplifiers, public address systems and musical instrument amplifiers,"
"signature Stratocasters were produced in three-tone sunburst and Olympic White finishes. In 2014, John Mayer announced that he was no longer a Fender Artist. As a result, his signature line of guitars was pulled from production. In 2015, Mayer announced that he was collaborating with PRS Guitars. In March 2016, Mayer and PRS revealed their collaborative project, the Super Eagle. This was limited release from PRS's Private Stock line of instruments. Each guitar features ultra-grade woods, abalone inlay, JCF Audio preamps, and a hand-signed sticker by glass-artist David Smith. Only 100 were produced, each retailing for over $10,000. In January"
"did with their Eddie Van Halen signature model guitars. The Studio Elite model is featured on Guitarist magazine's list of ""50 guitars to play before you die"". Their second model, the Ultimate Weapon (available with two or three humbuckers and a Floyd Rose locking tremolo), was introduced in 1993 and was also based on the Fender Stratocaster but with a redesigned appearance. The latest incarnation of the guitar, the Ultimate Weapon HD, introduced in 2007, came with a pickguard, an H/S/S pickup layout and a Wilkinson vibrato. Tyler describes this model as ""a Studio Elite wearing an Ultimate Weapon suit."""
"Fender Stratocaster guitar. He has made prominent use of Stratocasters, as he has a general preference for the sound of single coil pick-ups. Prior to using a Stratocaster with Fairport Convention he used a Gibson Les Paul with P-90 pick-ups. he then switched to a late 60s Stratocaster. Since leaving Fairport Convention he has continued to use electric guitars with single coil pick-ups, most famously a late-1950s Stratocaster but also two custom built electrics by Danny Ferrington as well as other Stratocasters, various Telecaster-type guitars and, in the studio, a Danelectro U2. As regards effects, he has made significant use"
"Johnny and has learned something from him"". Asked to compare their playing styles in an interview in 2010, Winter admitted that ""mine's a little bit rawer, I think."" Vaughan owned and used a variety of guitars during his career. His guitar of choice, and the instrument that he became most associated with, was the Fender Stratocaster, his favorite being a 1963 body, with a 1962 neck, and pickups dated from 1959. This is why Vaughan usually referred to his Stratocaster as a, ""1959 Strat."" He explained why he favored this guitar in a 1983 interview: ""I like the strength of"
"wasn't that bad'."" Malmsteen has been a longtime user of Fender Stratocasters with DiMarzio HS3 single-coil pickups. His most famous Stratocaster is his 1972 blonde Stratocaster, nicknamed ""The Duck"" because of its yellow finish and the Donald Duck stickers on the headstock. An alternative nickname for this guitar is ""Play Loud"" due to a sticker that Anders Johansson put on the upper horn of the guitar in Rockshire studios in 1984. Fender made 100 replica copies of this guitar and marketed it as the ""Play Loud Guitar"". He also has a Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Stratocaster since 1986. It comes"
"majority of the performance. Fender Esquire The Fender Esquire is a solid-body electric guitar manufactured by Fender, the first solid-body guitar sold by Fender, debuting in 1950. Shortly after its introduction, a two-pickup version was introduced and was renamed the ""Broadcaster"" a few months later; the single pickup version retained the Esquire name. The Gretsch Company at the time marketed a drum set under the 'Broadkaster' name, and at their request, Fender dropped the Broadcaster name, eventually renaming their guitar the ""Telecaster"". The more versatile Broadcaster/Telecaster has since become one of Fender's most popular models with dozens of variations produced."
"Stagemaster The Squier Stagemaster (discontinued) is a guitar made by Squier, which normally manufactures less expensive authorized copies of Fender's more popular guitars and bass guitars. The Stagemaster is similar in appearance to a Stratocaster with a few cosmetic and functional differences, and is typically classified as a Superstrat. Generally, these differences are: There were five different versions of the Stagemasters: V1 - Introduced in 1999 and featured a pickguard, top jack, reverse headstock, licensed Floyd Rose tremolo systems and 22 frets. Versions were HH, HSS, and HSH. V1 Stagemasters did not come from the factory in HHH or SSS"
"Antoria Antoria is a german guitar and then by FujiGen); contemporary Antorias come from South Korea and China. The Antoria brand was originally produced by the framus family who hand built every model. Guyatone-made guitars exported to the UK from Japan. One of the models was a copy of the Fender Stratocaster, played by Hank Marvin (until Cliff Richard gave him ""the real thing""). Jeff Beck played one, as did Big Jim Sullivan when he was playing with Marty Wilde. They were imported by James T. Coppock (Leeds) Ltd and Charles Summerfield Ltd. Some Antoria guitars may have been manufactured"
"with the performance of then-available original stock model commercial guitars, Van Halen sought to create a hybrid instrument that would suit his acrobatic playing style. The stock single-coil pickups of a Fender Stratocaster were noisy, and lacked the output necessary to drive an amplifier into hard distortion (characteristic of the Van Halen sound), but the body shape and wide pitch range of the Fender fulcrum tremolo appealed to him. An avid tinkerer, Van Halen assembled a Boogie Bodies Stratocaster body with a thin, 21-fret maple neck and a humbucking Gibson PAF pickup in the bridge slot. This guitar, known as"
"Shop announced two reproductions of Gilmour's ""Black"" Strat for release on 22 September 2008. Phil Taylor, Gilmour's guitar tech, supervised this release and has written a book on the history of this guitar. The release date was chosen to coincide with the release of Gilmour's ""Live in Gdańsk"" album. Both guitars are based on extensive measurements of the original instrument, each featuring varying degrees of wear. The most expensive is the David Gilmour Relic Stratocaster which features the closest copy of wear on the original guitar. A pristine copy of the guitar is also made, the David Gilmour NOS Stratocaster."
"models instead of using them stock. For instance, in the past he used to use Van Zandt pick-ups heavily in his own personal guitars and has since moved on to Kinman pick-ups (this change having now been reflected in one of his more recent Fernandes signature models). However he has also used many different guitars in and out of L'Arc-en-Ciel, including Gibson, Fender, and Steinberger models. In 2010, he endorsed the American-based guitar brand Fender, Ken (together with Inoran from Luna Sea) was approached by Fender and signed the endorsement contract; his signature model is a Stratocaster. Ken (musician) Ken"
"his log, Leo Fender was working on the Fender Telecaster. It was released in 1950. The telecaster had a “basic, single-cutaway solid slab of ash for a body and separate screwed-on maple neck was geared to mass production. It had a slanted pickup mounted into a steel bridge-plate carrying three adjustable bridge-saddles.” Its color was blond. It is considered “the world’s first commercially marketed solid body electric guitar.” . The Telecaster continues to be manufactured today. The follow-up to the Telecaster, the Stratocaster, appeared in 1954. It had three pickups instead of two. It had a vibrato bar on the"
"reintroduced in 1951 as a single pickup Telecaster, at a lower price. The so-called Nocaster was a short-lived variant of Telecaster. Produced in early to mid-1951, it was the result of legal action from the Gretsch company over the guitar's previous name, the ""Broadcaster"" (Gretsch already had the ""Broadkaster"" name registered for a line of drums). In the interim, before Fender had come up with an alternate name and printed appropriately revised headstock decals, factory workers simply snipped the ""Broadcaster"" name from its existing stock of decals, so guitars with these decals are identified simply as ""Fender"", without any model"
"Superstrat Superstrat is a name for an electric guitar design that resembles a Fender Stratocaster but with differences that clearly distinguish it from a standard Stratocaster, usually to cater to a different playing style. Differences typically include more pointed, aggressive-looking body and neck shapes, different woods, increased number of frets, usage of humbucking pickups and locking tremolo systems, most commonly the Floyd Rose. There is no formal definition of a superstrat; the categorisation is still largely left to popular opinion and depends greatly on the artist(s) associated with a particular model and how it is marketed. Superstrats are generally suited"
"electric guitars are manufactured in South Korea, and their acoustic and electro-acoustic guitars in China. Antoria Antoria is a german guitar and then by FujiGen); contemporary Antorias come from South Korea and China. The Antoria brand was originally produced by the framus family who hand built every model. Guyatone-made guitars exported to the UK from Japan. One of the models was a copy of the Fender Stratocaster, played by Hank Marvin (until Cliff Richard gave him ""the real thing""). Jeff Beck played one, as did Big Jim Sullivan when he was playing with Marty Wilde. They were imported by James"
"master volume, an ebony fingerboard and a 12"" neck radius. It has traits of a Gibson guitar and a Fender guitar. Root said it's a mix of classic and modern. The guitar's heel is shaved so the player can access higher frets. Root chose a nitro-lacquer finish because it tends to wear quicker than the normal polyurethane finish. The guitar comes with a SKB molded case with a blood red plush interior. Root uses EMG active pickups. This guitar is made in Mexico while his signature Stratocasters are made in America. The retail price is $1,469.99. More recently they have"
"outlet, for example, 3-tone sunburst with rosewood fretboard from Best Buy, black with maple fingerboard from Target, metallic black with rosewood fingerboard and pearloid scratchplate (Model No. 0283001165) from Sam's Club. Although the range was withdrawn from the Fender website in 2007, it continued to be developed and was sold through a variety of outlets, such as BJ's Wholesale Club, Amazon.com, and Buy.com. Most of these guitars were Stratocasters but some early versions (sometimes called S1) had an arrow-shaped headstock similar to the Fender Swinger. The typical Starcaster Strat Pack solid-body electric was fitted with 3 single coil pickups, a"
"built to exactly the same specifications as his first signature Strat, the sole exception being that the guitar is the first semi-hollow Stratocaster which has ever been produced by Fender. The guitar is available in Vintage White and 2-Color Sunburst, with Quartersawn Maple necks exclusively. In January 2006, a man named Brian Sparks was arrested for posing as Johnson and in the process defrauding businesses out of about US$18,000 worth of guitars and equipment. Also in 2006, some of Johnson's guitars that had been stolen 24 years earlier were recovered. Johnson has also released other signature gear such as GHS"
"with JV-prefix serial numbers, are often criticized for essentially having narrow Stratocaster pickups inside the wide soapbar Jazzmaster housings. These narrow pickups gice the guitar a Strat or Jaguar ""honk"" rather than the classic, mellow Jazzmaster sound. Since 1996, its Squier offshoot has manufactured a budget version called the Jagmaster, though its humbucker pickups and Stratocaster-style bridge give it a much different, ""hard rock"" sound. In May 2008 Fender introduced the Classic Player Series Jazzmaster, which was made in Mexico. Fender made numerous changes to the original design. This included replacing the bridge with a Tune-o-matic type, giving it a"
"around 1964. He thereafter used the model prevalently during performances and recordings. In 1967, he described the instrument as ""the best all-around guitar for the stuff we're doing""; he praised its ""bright treble and deep bass sounds"". With few exceptions, Hendrix played right-handed guitars that were turned upside down and restrung for left-hand playing. This had an important effect on the sound of his guitar; because of the slant of the bridge pickup, his lowest string had a brighter sound while his highest string had a darker sound, which was the opposite of the Stratocaster's intended design. In addition to"
"prototype, the bodies (thinner than the Broadcaster's at 1.5"", instead of 1.75"") were made of solid ash. The dual pickup version was first manufactured in June of that year. Neither version had a truss rod at that time, though in November, the dual pickup version acquired one and was renamed the ""Broadcaster"". Following objections from Gretsch who produced the ""Broadkaster"" drum kit, this name was dropped, and some guitars were shipped with only the ""Fender"" logo decal and no model name (commonly referred to these days as the ""Nocaster"") until the name ""Telecaster"" was adopted. The guitar was designed as"
"Contemporary). Superstrat Superstrat is a name for an electric guitar design that resembles a Fender Stratocaster but with differences that clearly distinguish it from a standard Stratocaster, usually to cater to a different playing style. Differences typically include more pointed, aggressive-looking body and neck shapes, different woods, increased number of frets, usage of humbucking pickups and locking tremolo systems, most commonly the Floyd Rose. There is no formal definition of a superstrat; the categorisation is still largely left to popular opinion and depends greatly on the artist(s) associated with a particular model and how it is marketed. Superstrats are generally"