Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!elf From: elf@utcsri.UUCP (Eugene Fiume) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: FENDER ? Message-ID: <842@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 12:09:46 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.842 Posted: Mon Mar 4 12:09:46 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 12:49:36 EST References: <816@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 10 I too have heard nasty (unconfirmed) news about both Fender and (less imminently) Gibson. I believe the old Strat, especially, is a very fine guitar, but let me remind potential mourners that all is not lost. There are many starving guitar-makers around who make exceptionally-good electric guitars for about the same price as (or a touch more than) mass-produced guitars. Remember that the embossed name on an instrument makes no audible contribution (maybe a golden-ears would disagree? (:-) ). Eugene Fiume