Gabriella Carden is an English major at London’s Birkbeck College with a passion for travel and music. A guitar player for the past eight years, Gabriella Carden owns a Fender Telecaster that she hopes someday to be able to connect with Marshall amplifiers in a live setting. Known for its popularity with rock musicians of the late 1960s onward, the Telecaster was created in 1951.
When he introduced the Telecaster, southern California entrepreneur Leo Fender had already broken ground with the Esquire, known as the first electric guitar, which was constructed from a solid, non-hollow piece of wood. A number of features were incorporated into the Telecaster from the Hawaiian steel guitars his company had produced since the mid-1940s, including chrome knobs and a maple neck that could be easily replaced. The sound was distinctively bright and cutting, with thick bass sounds and a piercing high range. Just as importantly for the evolution of rock ’n roll, when paired with a durable Fender amp, the guitar was extremely loud. Early adopters of the Fender Telecaster included B.B. King, Johnny Burnette, and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown.
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