So you want to play like rock god Jimi Hendrix? Fender combines guitar history and present-day playability in a Hendrix Stratocaster that's both a contemporary instrument and a child of the '60s.

Anyone with a vague interest in the electric guitar will know that Jimi Hendrix played a right-handed guitar restrung to be played left-handed - something Fender has sought to recreate with the Jimi ...

Guitar manufacturers have long offered “signature” models: instruments based on those used by famous players or built to their specs and then marketed to the public. Indeed, one the most iconic and ...

Emboldened by a recent European court ruling, Fender is trying to gain control over what is by far the world’s most popular ...

American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on ...

The Fender Stratocaster; musicians revere it, non-players see it when they picture a guitar, and a great many fans have heard it create history. The brand is now celebrating its 70th anniversary with ...

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In honour of our Hendrix-themed issue, the good people at Fender have kindly given us an Olympic White Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster worth £769 to give away to you, dear reader, that you may slather the ...

The clip, which you can watch on Fender’s official YouTube channel, features the various guitarists appearing one at a time as they shred away on an outdoor platform surrounded by stacks of Fender ...

The wood that is used to make the guitars of some of the greatest ‘rock gods’ has fallen victim to climate change. For more than 70-years iconic guitar masters, Fender, have been using ‘swamp ash’, or ...