Fascinating Fender Facts

Fender makes guitars in more than 100 different colors. Red, white, sunburst and black are the most popular.

Fenders were around before the explosion of Rock & Roll. The music was shaped by the gear...not the reverse.

The world's most expensive guitar is the badly scratched and burned Fender Stratocaster owned by Jimi Hendrix which sold at auction for $324,000.

"There's only one Fender" is more true than ever as today, at fifty years old, Fender holds the greatest market share of the $800 million electric guitar business.

The Fender Precision Bass was the first successful alternative to the stand-up bass. It was a fully electric fretted bass and played like a guitar.

Bonnie Raitt has played her original brown Stratocaster in every gig since 1969.