The Fender Stratocaster

Fender stratocaster
The fender stratocaster or "strat" is an extremely influential and important electric guitar created and designed by Leo Fender for the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation in 1954. This guitar is actually one of the first "solid body" guitars, as many guitars at the time were acoustic or semi hollow bodies. It was also the first guitar to ever have 3 pickups and a "floating spring tension tremolo system" and was the first fender to have whats known as a contoured body this body was very sleek and made with a double cutaway neck to allow players to reach higher on the fretboard this contoured body was designed to be more comfortable than fenders previous guitar The Telecaster body which was just a slab of wood and was meant to fit the the body of the player. Because of the three pickups i mentioned, the Strat is one of the most versatile guitars to ever exist and can be used for almost all kinds of music choices ranging from hardcore punk to smooth jazz or country.

Since 1954 Fender has made the stratocaster continuously and the stratocaster has grown to become one of if not the best and most influential guitars of all time. The strat is a guitar that can come with many different specs and little quirks, there are literally hundred of different kind of stratocasters