A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, TELECASTER "B-BENDER"

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FENDER ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT COMPANY, FULLERTON, 1976
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, TELECASTER "B-BENDER"
Bearing the logo Fender / SERIAL / NUMBER 7624308 TELECASTER / MADE IN U.S.A. at the headstock, the body of a Candy Apple Red color and fit with a Parsons-White String Bender which is stamped with the serial number 0129, maple neck, alder body, with case, strap marked NILE RODGERS, six Fender tuners, pickup selector switch, two single-coil pickups, two potentiometers, and a three-ply black Fender Telecaster pickguard
Length of back 15 3⁄4 in. (40 cm.)

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Lot Essay

This Candle Apple Red Fender B-Bender was most recently used by Rodgers for songwriting in country music. A B-Bender enables a player to bend the B-string up a whole step. The resulting tone can be used to imitate a pedal steel guitar and provide that characteristic 'twang' often associated with country music. According to Rodgers: "I know this guitar well. I’ve used it on songs...as a matter of fact, the other day I was writing a country song for Keith Urban [with LeAnn Rimes]....We were writing together a few months ago and I wrote for her on the B-Bender. It was amazing, it was great."

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