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Source:

"The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum." Leo

          Fender Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2014.

Name: Leo Fender 

Born: August 10, 1909, California, United States

Died: March 21, 1991, California, United States

       Leo Fender was the producer or the inventor of Fender electric guitar. He was born in August 10, 1909 in California in the City of Anaheim and he died in March 21, 1991 in California in the City of Fullerton. For of all he had a big interest with electronics and one time he had studied more about electronics and do some work with the radios, speaker and some more electrical items. He also involved with the guitar design after guitar player bring him an amplify and the pickups that create dfrom the horseshoes magnet that transfer the vibartion of the string to the amplify of the guitar to be repaired. Many people asking to each other debated to each other at that time about who successfully design the solid body of the elctric guitar, and Leo fender is the one who successfully created it, designed it, and sell it to people in 1948. Two years later his invention is still the same and used by country and rock musicians because of its unique sound. 

         In 1950 he was the first who design electrical bass guitar with 4 tick steel string. It has a whole new sound and the sound feels more flexible. The bass guitar become popular and in 1954 he introduced his doubled and triple pickups guitar and his first tremolo guitar that can bend the string that make the player able to create many variation of melody and make a unique sound by bend the string. His guitar played and used and become popular because of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Jeff Beck. He died cause by the parkinson's disease that he suffer for so many years but he not died in vain he died with honor because of his idea to improved and make the electric guitar more unique and popular. 

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