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Fender has added some new features to a few of its classic instruments and announced the New American Standard series. Here’s a great occasion to come face to face (or body to body) with two of rock’s oldest and dearest friends: the Stratocaster and Telecaster.

For those few who don’t know, the Stratocaster and the Telecaster are kind of the mothers of all electric guitars, with their Gibson cousin, the Les Paul. Created in the beginning of the 50’s by the master Leo Fender, these guitars kick-started the solid body concept (bodies without sound chambers, and therefore solving the feedback problem of amplified acoustic guitars ) and establishing the principles of electric guitar building; to the point where 50 years later, these very same principles are still used by electric guitar builders.

Even if you don‘t take this fact into consideration, both of these guitars are also among the world’s best selling guitars and have of course left their mark on the history of Rock: the Stratocaster: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Ritchie Blackmore, Dick Dale, Mark Knopfler, Yngwie Malmsteen, Rory Gallagher, Eric Johnson… and the Telecaster? It’s Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Greenwood, Joe Strummer, Andy Summers, Muddy Waters or even Steve Cropper…

So of course, when you put your hands on one of these beauties, a whole world of sound comes pouring out of them …. This was definitely the case with last century’s Strats and Teles and,…. it’s still the case with these New American Standards.