The pickguard was made of one piece of plastic, with no chrome control panel. These guitar remained in the line up through 1997. These models were available in black, Torino red and Arctic white. The twin slider switches were replaced with the 3-way toggle selector on the guitars upper horn.
The neck was now back to maple with a maple fretboard. The scale was still short, however this time it was 22.7” instead the of 22.5’ length. In 1993 Fender decided to reissue the Duo-Sonic. The Musicmaster was offered by Fender through 1982.
However the designation Musicmaster II was dropped in favor of just Musicmaster. However the single pickup Musicmaster was still kept in the line up. The Duo-Sonic II lasted until 1969, when Fender determined that the popularity of Mustang sales did not warrant maintaining the “hard-tailed” Duo-Sonic. The neck was still available with the 22 1/2” scale, but the guitars were also offered the same 24” scale neck found on the Mustang.īoth guitars were available in Dakota red, white, or Daphne blue finishes. The bridge/saddle on both guitars were redesigned to have a raised lip on the end to attach the strings. Similar treatment was done to the Musicmaster, but it had no slider switches. Just like the Mustang, the volume and tone controls and the jack were mounted on a separate metal plate. The pickguard was now a 3 ply style and offered in white or red pearloid material. The 3-way switch was also gone, and replaced with two 3 position slider switches, similar to those on the Mustang.īoth pickups were slanted and available with black or white covers. These features were added to the Duro-Sonic, which became essentially a Mustang without the vibrato. That year the guitars were renamed the Duo-Sonic II and the Musicmaster II.įender had released the Mustang in that same year and this guitar featured a larger offset body. In 1963 the sunburst finish was discontinued and the guitars were available in white with brown plastic pick guards.īig changes occurred in late 1964 when the Duo-Sonic and Musicmaster were redesigned. The anodized aluminum pickguard was changed to a plastic one with shielding under the potentiometers.ġ959 was also the year that the Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic came in Sunburst which replaced Desert Sand. Within a year Fender changed this to the veneer style rosewood fret board. This model went unchanged until later in 1959 when a rosewood slab fret board was added to the maple neck. The suggested retail price at the time for the Duo-Sonic was $149.50. The original run of these guitars came in only one color that Fender called Desert Sand.
#Musicmaster ii serial number#
The serial number was stamped on the chrome neck plate. The initial models of each instrument came with an anodized aluminum pickguard done in a gold colour. This bridge was fastened directly to the body and it came with a bridge cover, which generally was taken off the guitar. The middle position on the Duo-Sonic placed the single coil pickups in series, thus acting like a humbucking pickup.īoth guitars had adjustable bridges which had 3 sections, much like the older Telecaster bridges, with each section doing duty for two strings. The Duo-Sonic added an additional pickup, without a slant, in the bridge position and a 3-way selector switch on the lower horn. The Musicmaster featured just one single-coil slanted pickup in the neck position. Both instruments came with a single volume and tone control. The guitars double cutaway slab body was made of either an ash or alder and featured shorter horns than those on a Stratocaster. The tuning machines came with less costly plastic buttons instead of metal ones found on the strat and tele. Both guitars featured a 22 1/2” scale bolt on, soft V style maple neck with a maple fret board. The 3/4 sized Fender Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic guitar guitars were both offered in the spring of 1956. The introduction of this guitar coincided with the year Elvis Presley became popular, which caused an increased interest in the guitar.īy 1956 Leo Fender thought it might be a good idea to introduce a student model to the Fender line up, which would have a shorter scale for small hands and also had a reduced price point.ġ956 Fender Musicmaster and Duo-Sonic Guitars Moving forward to 1954, Fender introduced the Stratocaster. So the word "Broadcaster" was cut off of subsequent headstock decals.īy the summer of 1951 the guitar was renamed the Telecaster. In the fall of that year Fender added an additional pickup and called that guitar the Broadcaster, which didn’t last long as Gretsch had trademarked that name for their drum sets. This "Spanish-style" electric guitar was made in the style of Leo Fender’s lap steel guitars, with a single slanted pickup placed right next to the bridge and saddles. Fender introduced their solid body electric guitar, the Esquire, as early as 1950.
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