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The Fender archives : a scrapbook of artifacts, treasures, and inside information
- Title
- The Fender archives : a scrapbook of artifacts, treasures, and inside information / Tom Wheeler.
- Author
- Wheeler, Tom (Thomas Hutchin)
- Publication
- Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- 92 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 24 x 31 cm
- Summary
- Welcome to The Fender Archives part history, part archive, part scrapbook, and part treasure chest. You are invited along on a research expedition, a sort of archeological dig through several sites: file folders in Fender's offices; the family archives of Don Randall; author/curator Richard Smith's collections; the photo galleries of John Peden and Fretted Americana; jammed metal cabinets in a sweltering warehouse near the Corona factory; and the home of the late Bob Perine in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, just blocks from the beach where he and Ned Jacoby took now-iconic photos of high school kids, surfboards, palm trees, and chrome-clad rocket-ship guitars in Shoreline Gold and Daphne Blue and Candy Apple Red. The Fender Archives looks at the company from the inside. Handwritten letters, production totals, personal logbooks, in-house memos, Leo Fender's drawing-board sketches, financial reports-such documents are freed here from long confinement in cardboard boxes and filing cabinets, dusted off, and promoted from background to spotlight. The Fender Archives sheds new light on the inspirations for revolutionary instruments and amplifiers, their sometimes difficult births and growing pains, the environment into which they were unleashed upon the world, and the motivations and personalities of key players. Additional Selling Points: * Includes rare and previously unseen photographs and documents from Fender's decades-long rich history * Over 30 reproduced facsimile items of historical documents, posters, and other items of interest.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Front pocket. Telecaster poster -- Envelope 1. March 1946 agreement between Leo Fender, manufacturer and Radio & Television Equipment, distributor ; Leo Fender's business card ; Sketch of phonograph record changer ; Telegram informing of copyright infringement ; Letter from Don Randall addressing "the gravity of this Spanish guitar situation ; Price list for amplifiers, speakers, and guitars -- Envelope 2. Cost sheet: Spanish guitar body ; Journal excerpt ; 1953 dealer flyer ; Bass poster -- Envelope 3. Stratocaster diagram ; Vintage Feder instrument tag ; Diagram of floating tremolo and bridge construction for lute-type musical instruments ; Bob Perine poster -- Envelope 4. Painting for cover of Fender's 1964-65 catalog ; Theater lobby card for the film Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! ; Set list from the Who's 2010 performance of Quadrophenia ; December 1987 in-house pickguard assembly diagram -- Back pocket. Stratocaster poster.
- Call Number
- JNG 15-8
- ISBN
- 9781476817477
- 1476817472
- LCCN
- 2014012326
- OCLC
- 875520993
- Author
- Wheeler, Tom (Thomas Hutchin)
- Title
- The Fender archives : a scrapbook of artifacts, treasures, and inside information / Tom Wheeler.
- Publisher
- Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard Books, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JNG 15-8