Fender Strat

How to Tune Your Guitar

Posted September 30, 2009 by Fender Stratocaster in Blog | No comments yet

Below are some alternate tunings to make your Strat sound unique.  Notes shown from lowest to highest.

E-A-D-G-B-E
Standard Tuning

D-A-D-G-B-E
Drop D

D-A-D-G-B-D
Double Drop D

D-G-C-F-A-D
Down One Step

F-B-E-G-C-F
Up One Step

D-G-C-F-A-D
Standard D

C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C
Standard C

E-B-E-G#-B-E
Open E

E-E-B-B-B-B
Used by Soundgarden

C-G-C-G-G-E
Also used by Soundgarden

There are countless other ways to tune a guitar.

Interesting Fendor Facts

Posted September 16, 2009 by Fender Stratocaster in Blog | No comments yet

Interesting Facts:

• Guitar fan Chris Black of London actually had a wedding ceremony to officially marry his Fender Stratocaster last year.
• Another impassioned fan, T. Winterbottom of Lancashire, England, created a life-sized Fender guitar out of 7,000 matchsticks.
• There's the Fender lover who tattooed a Stratocaster and Fender logo on his right forearm.
• An Italian collector paid $324,000 at a Sotheby's auction for the badly scratched and cigarette burned Fender Stratocaster owned by Jimi Hendrix. It went for three times the expected price -- and holds the record for the world's most expensive guitar.
• The neck of the giant Fender Stratocaster-shaped Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, Fla., stretches over the street to make an awsome overpass.
• The slot machine arms in the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel were made by the Fender Guitar Custom Shop to look like Fender guitar necks.
• The Hard Rock in New York City proudly sports a huge guitar-shaped bar in Fender's distinctive sunburst finish.
• A Fender Stratocaster is carved into Jimi Hendrix's tombstone.

General

• There are four versions of the Standard Strat (Squier, Squier Affinity, MIM, MIA Strat). The list prices range from $180-$1,000
• The most expensive production Strat is the USA Richie Sambora Strat which is $1800 list. Theretially you could get a Strat costing millions from the custom shop.
• The 70's Strats started having a "big" headstock. Now the Strats have the original, or small size, headstock.