Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), regularly alluded to just as Fender, is an American producer of stringed instruments and enhancers. It is known for its strong body electric guitars and low pitch guitars, for example, the Stratocaster (otherwise called the "Strat"), Telecaster (otherwise called the "Tele"), Precision Bass, and the Jazz Bass. Its base camp are in Scottsdale, Arizona. The organization, beforehand named the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, was established in Fullerton, California, by Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender in 1946.The organization is a secretly held company with Andy Mooney serving as the Chief Executive Officer. The organization petitioned for a first sale of stock in March 2012, however this was pulled back five months after the fact. Notwithstanding its Scottsdale base camp, Fender has fabricating offices in Corona, California (US) and Ensenada, Baja California (Mexico).The organization additionally makes and/or appropriates acoustic guitars, electric basses, mandolins, banjos, and electric violins, and also guitar enhancers, bass speakers, and PA (open location) gear. Other Fender brands incorporate Squier (section level/spending plan), Jackson, Charvel, Gretsch guitars and worked together with Eddie Van Halen to make the EVH guitars and amplifiers.In 1951, Fender offered the primary mass-created strong body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster (initially named the 'Supporter'; "Esquire" is a solitary pickup rendition), and the main mass-delivered electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass). In 1954, Fender mass-created the well known Stratocaster (Strat) guitar.

While Fender was not the first to make electric guitars, as different organizations and luthiers had delivered electric guitars since the late 1920s, none was as monetarily effective as Fender's. Moreover, while almost all other electric guitars then were either empty body guitars or more particular instruments, for example, Rickenbacker's strong body Hawaiian guitars, Fender had made flexible strong body electric guitars. These guitars were and still are famous with performers in an assortment of genres.The organization started as Fender's Radio Service in late 1938 in Fullerton, California. It got its name from the surname of its author Leo Fender. As a qualified hardware expert, Leo Fender had been requested that repair radios, as well as phonograph players, home sound intensifiers, open location frameworks and musical instrument enhancers. (At the time, the greater part of these were only minor departure from a couple of basic vacuum-tube circuits.) All outlines depended on examination created and discharged to the general population space by Western Electric in the 1930s and utilized vacuum tubes for intensification. The business likewise sidelined in conveying records available to be purchased and the rental of self-composed PA frameworks. Leo got to be interested by configuration defects in contemporary musical instrument speakers and started assembling intensifiers in view of his own outlines or adjustments to plans.