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Clarence Leonidas Fender was born on August 10, 1909, to Clarence Monte Fender and Harriet Elvira Wood, owners of a successful orange grove located between Anaheim and Fullerton, California.At the age of eight, Fender developed a tumor in his left eye, resulting in the eye being removed and being replaced with a glass eye, making him ineligible for the draft in World War II later in life.
If Leo Fender had somehow managed to survive until his 110th birthday, he wouldn’t have wanted much fuss. Rather than consider how to blow out 110 candles on that big cake, he’d much rather have ambled to his workshop, where he could work alone more satisfyingly on the new pickup he’d been toying with for the last few months.
Leo Fender was an American inventor and manufacturer of electronic musical instruments. Together with George Fullerton, Fender developed the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar in 1951. Called the Fender Broadcaster (renamed the Telecaster later that year), it was produced under the
Articles. 3 Min Read By Pauline France Share. 8 Things You Might Not Know About Leo Fender. In celebration of what would have been his 108th birthday. #electric; #fenderhistory
May 7, 2021 · Dawn of a New Age. The newly established Fender Electric Instrument Co. dabbled in lap steels and amplifiers, producing between ‘46 and 48’ the original Fender amp lineup: the Princeton, the Deluxe, and the Professional, a.k.a., the Woodies.The Professional was particularly noted as an amp of high-quality, pumping out 25-watts of tube power compared to the typical 15-watt max of the time.
Mar 21, 2022 · When Leo Fender and his colleagues launched the first Fender solid-body electric guitar in 1950, almost everyone who saw it thought he’d gone mad. Fender’s early amplifiers were good, but a solid-body guitar? Every player knew that guitars were hollow.
Leo Fender is perhaps the most important figure in the history of the electric guitar, but very little attention is given to his work after leaving the company that bore his name – but he kept working, and kept inventing right until the end.
Leo Fender’s solid-body electric guitar changed rock music forever. A Fender guitar has something special—call it crunch, bite, twang—that makes it the guitar of choice for such virtuosos as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix.
Mar 23, 1991 · In his later years, Leo Fender, who died Thursday in Fullerton at age 81 from complications of Parkinson's disease, enjoyed recounting a night in the late 1940s when he drove out to Riverside with ...
Aug 10, 2009 · Leo Fender didn't invent the electric guitar. Six-string slingers had been experimenting with rudimentary amplification systems since the early decades of the 20th century.
