singemonkey wrote:
Now I agree with you man. But let's not pretend a Tele's rare, right ?
What was it with Leo in the early '50s huh? He could do no wrong. Just design classic after design classic. And you can bet he never went to art school. Telecasters, Stratocasters, Tweed covered amplifiers, Bass guitars. Amazing.
right on the button singemonkey, i been reading a lot about leo in last while....... since all the gear that i love is either designed by him, and of course torres for the classical guitar as we know it,
and from what i read he was really hooked in with the pro/working muso's of the time, and listened to what the wanted and needed onstage and was ingenious enough as a disigner and manufacturer to base his designs on trying to solve their real world onstage sound issues ,
interestingly i was reading re the tele design , which was initially the broadcaster with only one pup and no trussrod initially ( i was amazed to read that) ..... but that cutting tele tone was deliberate so the guitarists playing in big bands with brass sections and string sections ( it was the 50's ) could still play with their low powered amps of the day (which was all that was available) and cut through the mix of a live big band ...which apparantly the production hollowbody's of the day would not ( they all had dark/deep /jazz tones)
and of course country players only hooked onto the tele much later and adopted it as "weapon of choice" in that genre...... and that simple slab like design of a tele is minimalist and could be easily manufactured in their initial small factory,
so it seems Leo was very practical in that he solved the practical playing issues of the muso's of the tme and combined it with the practical issues he and his partner faced on the production side ....
and as singemonkey said he got it right, and his designs are today still practical to use musically even in the original 50's design .......
