Talk:Stratocaster
From Academic Kids
The name "Stratocaster" was NOT intended to to recall Stradivarious. If whoever wrote this article had bothered to read nearly any book on the instrument, or any interview with Leo Fender, Bill Carson, or just about anyone else involved in its creation, they would see this is simply not the case.
instead of angrily denouncing the author for getting a fact wrong, take pride in making the article better.
Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed guitar strung right-handed, but flipped upside-down.
Actually Hendrix played his strat strung normally - heavy-on-top/light-on-bottom: watch the Isle of Wight concert for a better look, or Woodstock. Freddie King played his lefty guitar strung, from his perspective, upside down. There are many discussion about why he preffered a right-handed strat. I've heard two that are plausable: being heavy-handed, he preffered the greater string tension of the top E string being streched over a longer distance (also clearer sounds and maybe even tuning stability); the controls and vibrato arm were closer and could be adjusted before a downstroke. Anyway, nice page and congrats to the author!
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Auto Movil, I would just like to question your most recent edit - it seemed to take a lot of the information in the article out, in favour of style and succinctness. I personally think that much of that information should be put back in. May I ask why you made these edits? Brother Dysk 13:56, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
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I think that a photo of real Fender Stratocaster should be given instead of Squier Stratocaster's, because Squier looks slightly different.
