Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992).
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Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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business · American inventor and founder of the Fender company (1909–1991) · guitar maker · musical instrument maker · businessperson · inventor · luthier · also Leo Fender, Clarence Leonidas Fender, Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender, Fender
Born 10 August 1909 · Died 21 March 1991 · Q297469
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1992· 1 entry
1991· 2 entries
Died 1991-03-21.
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Died of complications from Parkinson's disease
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1979· 1 entry
Fender and old friends George Fullerton and Dale Hyatt started a new company called G&L ("George & Leo") Musical Products
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1975· 1 entry
Fender became its president
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1971· 1 entry
Forrest White and Tom Walker formed the Tri-Sonix company (often incorrectly referred to as "Tri-Sonic"), based in Santa Ana, California
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1960· 1 entry
Rosewood fingerboards, wider color selections and a three-ply pickguard became available for the P-Bass
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1951· 1 entry
Fender addressed both issues: the Telecaster-based Precision Bass was small and portable, and its solid-body construction and four-magnet, single coil pickup let it play at higher volumes without feedback
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1948· 1 entry
Finished the prototype of a thin solid-body electric; the first one-pickup model was released in 1950 as the Fender Esquire, while a two-pickup version, initially called the Broadcaster but renamed the Telecaster afte
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1946· 1 entry
Doc pulled out of K&F and Fender revised the company and renamed it "Fender Manufacturing", and then later "Fender Electric Instrument Co
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1945· 1 entry
Began selling the guitar in a kit with an amplifier designed by K&F
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1944· 1 entry
Fender and Kauffman patented a lap steel guitar with an electric pickup already patented by Fender
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1938· 1 entry
With a borrowed $600 (equivalent to $13,723 in 2025), Fender and his wife Esther returned to Fullerton, and started his own radio repair shop, Fender Radio Service
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1934· 1 entry
Fender married Esther Klosky, and the couple remained together until Esther's death from cancer in 1979
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1928· 1 entry
Fender graduated from Fullerton Union High School, and entered Fullerton Junior College as an accounting major, though he continued to work with electronics
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1909· 2 entries
To Clarence Monte Fender and Harriet Elvira Wood, owners of a successful orange grove located between Anaheim and Fullerton, California
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Born 1909-08-10.
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