Electric guitar design name. In 1954, Fender introduced the Fender Stratocaster, or "Strat". It was positioned as a deluxe model and offered various product improvements and innovations over the Telecaster. These innovations included an ash or alder double-cutaway body design for badge assembly with an integrated vibrato mechanism (called a "synchronized tremolo" by Fender, thus beginning a confusion of the terms that still continues), three single-coil pickups, and body comfort contours. Leo Fender is also credited with developing the first commercially successful electric bass called the Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951. Gibson, like many guitar manufacturers, had long offered semi-acoustic guitars with
The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra The Experimental Guitar Series Volume 1: The Guitar as Orchestra is the ninth solo album by Adrian Belew, released in 1995). It was his first all-instrumental/experimental album since 1986's "Desire Caught By the Tail". The album was originally intended to be the first in a series of Experimental Guitar albums expressing musical concepts that would otherwise not be released by conventional recording labels. All ten compositions - performed by Belew on a custom Fender Stratocaster and utilizing such technical elements as Roland guitar synthesizers, Korg guitar processors, and Roland delays