1959 Fender Jazzmaster Guitar - Seattle, WA
N 47° 37.298 W 122° 20.913
10T E 548949 N 5274453
Located within the Museum of Pop Culture is a gallery containing rare guitars belonging to some of the best musicians in the U.S. Admission fees apply.
Waymark Code: WMWGZ2
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2017
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Over 50 guitars are located in the Guitar Gallery: The Quest for Volume within the Museum of Pop Culture. One of them is a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster guitar. A nearby placard reads:
Not much jazz was ever played on a Jazzmaster, but surf bands and garage rockers loved it
Introduced as Fender's new deluxe model, the Jazzmaster boasted features like highly sensitive dual pickups and a "floating"
vibrator/bridge unit that kept it in tune if a string broke.
Though never as popular as the Stratocaster, it still won its share of fans in the sixties...but not the fancy guitarists that it had hoped for. While jazz musicians largely stuck with their more traditional hollow-body guitars punk rockers and garage punks of several generations have prized this guitar's rich tones.