![]() Fender single coil pickup in neck position. Neck Details: Glossy maple neck with unbound rosewood fingerboard and pearloid dot inlaysĮlectronics: Original pickup and wiring. Not a Fender, but it looks cool and is a very easy player.Fingerboard Material: Rosewood Fingerboard That's a short scale (24.0" scale, specifically) electric. Not by Fender but by Squier, the Classic Vibe Mustang. Is there an alternative that's new and cheap? Of course there is. It's a simple little vintage Fender guitar of joy that's actually attainable. Yes, you will spend some coin for a pre-CBS Musicmaster, but it is one of the most accessible Fender vintage electrics you can buy simply for the fact it's not the price of a new car.Īnd remember, the Musicmaster is the easier player for the reasons I stated above. The pre-CBS Musicmaster is far less in price (by literally tens of thousands) compared to a Stratocaster or Telecaster of the same vintage. Acoustic-electric nylon string guitars certainly do exist, such as the Cordoba GK Studio or the highfalutin Takamine TH90 (which is gorgeous by the way), but that's still altogether different from an all-electric guitar using steel strings.Ĭoncerning price of a pre-CBS Musicmaster, this is what I have to say about that: I think the only kind of guitar that's even easier to play than the Musicmaster is a classical guitar, meaning a nylon string acoustic. It's just a small, light and simple little thing, which is something older gents appreciate a lot because they don't like complicated stuff. I have to admit the Musicmaster is an endearing and even lovable guitar. One volume control, one tone control, one pickup. The Musicmaster is the very definition of a no-fuss guitar. This guitar is obviously meant for cowboy chord playing and not soloing, especially considering it has a 7.25" fingerboard radius. You could load heavier gauge strings on a Musicmaster and still have a very easy-playing guitar. ![]() What that means is you get real Fender, real vintage, and something that's easier to play than a Stratocaster or Telecaster.Īs far as I'm aware, all the vintage Musicmasters are top-loaders, meaning that in addition to the super short scale making it ridiculously easy to play, the top-loaded strings lessens the tension for even easier play. This guitar was designed from the start to be a very easy player. What makes the pre-CBS Musicmaster possibly the ultimate retirement guitar is that it has a super short 22.5" scale. While true the guitar was made all the way up until 1982, of course the best ones are the pre-CBS era '59 to '64 models. This one in particular is for the older gents with hands that don't work as well as they used to.įirstly, the Musicmaster shown above is from a Reverb shop called A Flash Flood of Gear out of Meritt Island FL, and you can see a bunch of other ones on Reverb, so if you want to know where to find these things, there you go.įender Musicmaster was Fender's student guitar. My reading audience goes all over the place as far as age is concerned. ![]() It's real-deal Fender vintage, it's available, and there's one other rather nice advantage to owning one of these. Fender Musicmaster might be the ultimate retirement guitar
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