Кейт Вильямс (Keith Williams)Introduction
This video is brought to you with the support of TruFire. Learn, practice, and play with TruFire. Hi, this is Keith Williams, welcome to "5 Watt World". We're here to help you get the most music from the least gear. The Telecaster is where it all began, the first mass-produced solid body electric guitar. It's no wonder guitarists often say Leo Fender got it right the first time. From Rock to Jazz, any type of music you can imagine, it's been played on a Telecaster. From James Burton to Jimmy Page, from Brent Mason to Steve Cropper, Julian Lage, Ed Bickert, Bill Frisell, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Danny Gatton, Terry Kath, Brad Paisley, Mike Campbell to Keith Richards - the Telly has been their weapon of choice. I think it's fair to say that the top spot of greatest electric guitar of all time might be a three-way tie, but the Telly was first, and for many, it was the last guitar they ever needed.
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Prototypes of the Fender Broadcaster (1948-1950)
Across the time from 1948 to 1950, the prototypes of the Fender Broadcaster guitar were coming together. Fender had been building lap steel guitars for a few years, but this would be their first Spanish-style guitar, one that sits on your lap to be played. Interestingly, the manufacturing and marketing distribution for Fender Instruments was done by two separate companies - the Fender Electric Instrument Company, run by Leo Fender, and the Radio Television and Equipment Company, run by Don Randall. This dual structure often comes into play in the history of the Telecaster. Fender had a successful business selling lap steel guitars and amplifiers, and it was decided that the new guitar would be a solid body as well. Of course, other electric guitars had been built before, but they were mainly hollow-body acoustic guitars with pickups added. Over at Gibson, these had been dubbed "Electric Spanish" or ES guitars. The "Spanish" designation was necessary to differentiate them from the electric lap steel guitars that were so popular at the time.