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The P-bass is wonderful, but it is probably hyperbolic to say it was Leo's most influential musical instrument. 60% of electric stringed instruments sold today worldwide are either Fender Stratocasters, or unauthorized clones of that instrument.

I've changed the text slightly to eliminate this controversial statement, while preserving the deservedly panegyric tone that even the most neutral of commentators must needs adopt when discussing this titan of 20th century music. -Ikkyu2 05:41, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Early life? Sale of the company? 2 Who has ever heard of Clarence Leonidas Fender? 3 Images please? 4 Fender Wikiproject Proposal 5 WikiProject class rating 6 See Also: Gibson?

[edit] Early life? Sale of the company?

There seems to be very little biographical information about Leo Fender in this article. There is nothing about his early life or about his years making amplifiers and other electronic equipment with Kaufmann & Fender (K&F). There is nothing about the illness that caused him to sell the company to CBS, nor about the cure he bought with the money he got from CBS. It is as if the man was nothing but the instruments and equipment. Respectfully, SamBlob 05:37, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. Someone really arrogant and stupid hijacked this from about the fifth word. Are we supposed to go to Britannica to find this information? For I'm sure a responsible organisation as theirs has it. Hey maybe that's a good idea in general: stop donating wasted money to Wiki Pee and buy the hard cover EB.

This page looks more like an article on Fender made guitars than on the man itself. Is there anyone willing to enter some info of a more bibliographical nature? Leo Fender was more than just his guitars.130.13.24.207 (talk) 11:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Who has ever heard of Clarence Leonidas Fender?

The founder of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (as it is now known) and the amazing electrical engineer and lateral thinker behind the creation of the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass, Bassman, and other revolutionary products, deserves this article. In fact he deserves an article better than this one. However, in almost every publication, the person so described is referred to as Leo Fender. Apart from this article, I have never seen him referred to as Clarence Leonidas Fender, although I have read a book (The Ultimate Guitar Book, written by Tony Bacon and published by Dorling-Kindersley) in which the refer to him as Clarence Leo Fender once or twice and as Leo Fender throughout the rest of the book.

Is it not usual for articles about noteworthy people to be titled with the name by which they are most widely known rather than their full given name in cases where the two are not the same? The articles for Lee Iacocca, Ed Cole, and Gus Grissom are not titled "Lido Anthony Iacocca" "Edward Nicholas Cole" or "Virgil Ivan Grissom" respectively.

Because he was most widely known as "Leo Fender", I believe that should be the title of the article about him. Respectfully, SamBlob 15:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images please?

I think this needs one or two pictures of leo fender...? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 218.215.198.236 (talk) 11:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Fender Wikiproject Proposal

I have proposed a Wikiproject for articles relating to Fender. If you are interested, please add you name here. Izzy007 Talk 21:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] See Also: Gibson?

Should Gibson really be listed first under the category of "See Also"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.177.39.250 (talk) 06:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)