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Fender Guitar Maker Goes Public
The Jimi Hendrix Signature Series Edition 2 9 is a Fender Instru
ments Stratocaster with artwork by Alan Aldridge.
( A P )— A n instrum ental piece
o f rock and roll history is going
public.
F ender M usical Instrum ents
C orp., the m aker o f legendary gui
tars strum m ed by the likes o f
B uddy H olly, Jim i H endrix and
Eric C lapton, filed papers T h u rs
day for a $200 million initial public
offering.
F o u n d e d in 1 9 4 6 b y L eo
F ender, the co m p an y created the
T elecaster and S trato caster g u i
tars in the 1950s.
T h e " S tra t," a fa v o rite o f
H endrix and scores o f others,
w ent on sale in 1954. It had a
sturdy, all-w o o d body that could
stand up to rep eated abuse, m ak
ing it p opular in the rock and roll
world.
In its filing with the SEC, Fender
said it's the co u n try 's b ig g est
seller o f electric, acoustic and
bass guitars. It also m akes am p li
fiers and o th er instrum ents in
c lu d in g b a n jo s, u k u le le s and
m andolins, and sells instrum ents
u n d e r o th e r b ra n d s su c h as
Squier, Jackson, G uild, O vation
and Latin Percussion.
F ender has been through sev
eral ow ners before its push to the
public m ark ets. In 1965, Leo
F e n d e r so ld the c o m p a n y to
broadcaster C B S Inc., w hich sold
it to an investor group 20 years
later.
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Adapted by Jacqueline Woodson from her book Locomotion This play was commissioned by the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Orlando Repertory Theatre