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From the Beginning...
Fender---our very name is synonymous with all things bass. The electric bass guitar and the bass
Clarence "Leo" Fender
amplifier simply weren't available to the masses before
and his small
Precision Bass ®
Bassman ®
Southern California company conceived of and produced the
and the
amplifier
in the early 1950s.
Throughout the
1930s
and '40s, the upright bass, which was the standard in popular music at the
time, could barely be heard beneath the rumble and volume of the pop and big bands of the era. In
Precision Bass ®
1951
Fender changed all of that with the creation of the
, an electric bass guitar with
"precise" intonation that when amplified, could be easily heard and felt on the bandstands and
throughout the dance venues of the day, forever altering the landscape of popular and recorded
Music.
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