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The Midway Rebel

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18. Cool article, it should have mentioned Freddie Tavares though.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 02:00 AM

Feb 2014

Freddie Tavares was more responsible for the design of the Strat than Leo. Leo is a business man and designed the Telecaster. Freddie was an actual guitarist. When you hold a Tele and then a Strat, you can tell it who designed what.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Tavares

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