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Post subject: first time with a tele
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:53 pm
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recently i was at my guitar teachers taking a lesson and my string broke so he has 24 guitars and let me borrow his tele i instantly fell in love when i played it. it was a 99 fender american standard in a butterscotch blonde. what was the first tele you played? and was it a good experience?


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A very additive guitar! Careful! :wink: I bought my first tele last year(been a strat man) and love it!!


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First Tele I ever played was a 1975 Honey blonde with white pickguard. I fell in love instantly and knew the Tele was the guitar for me. It just felt right more so than any other guitar I had ever tried.

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The 1st Tele I played was a Squier Affinity Tele in Butterscotch. Phenomenal guitar especially for the price.

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The first Tele I ever played was actually my guitar teachers as well. I always liked how they looked, but never played one, until one day my intonation was all screwed up, so he let me play is 70s (I think) Telecaster. It would still be a few years before I would get my own Teles, but I still remember that day...

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My Uncle John's 60's Tele when I was 11 years old. He taught me to play as well.

I flirted with Les Paul copies for a while as a teenager but Tele's kept pulling me back so I ended up with a 72 Custom RI which is kinda like both in one!

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The first one I ever played was at a guitar store when I was buying a new Strat. I had already committed to the Strat, but I knew I was instantly addicted to the Tele.

Six Tele's later, I figure I'm just getting my collection started!

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Post subject: Strat to Tele
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:06 am
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I started by playing strats and one day i tryed a squire tele and feel in love with it then when it came time to buy one i bought the MIM Nashville tele and i can tell you as you and all tele lovers know you know when your playing a tele it feels like a guitar should in your hands , sometimes i felt the strat was to easy to play and this would make me play sloppy sometimes lazy but with a tele you know that the guitar was a live being at onetime you can feel the soul of a tele even more then other guitars i just luvvvve them have a great holiday season to all, Keep Jamming Abe :wink:


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First Tele I played was when I was about 15 and I don't know the year of the guitar but I was 15 in 1974 and I remember it was an old guitar then so it was prolly early 60's. I hated it then. A honking beast that showed every mistake I made. It wasn't until I was about 30 or so that I began to love the Telecaster. Now the Tele is my Favourite guitar type.

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Randy1 wrote:
The 1st Tele I played was a Squier Affinity Tele in Butterscotch. Phenomenal guitar especially for the price.



+1. I picked one of these up in the store and it felt fantastic, so I bought it. The pickups were iffy, so I replaced the bridge. Otherwise, I can't believe how good it is. Maple neck, alder body. It's all good.


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Randy1 wrote:
The 1st Tele I played was a Squier Affinity Tele in Butterscotch. Phenomenal guitar especially for the price.


I fully agree

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The first Tele I held in my hands and learned to play my first chords and melodies on was an old one from the early 50s. I was 14 at that time and though after this experience I played the Keyboards and organ for years to come I`ll never forget about the moment I met this guitar. And knew that one day I would own and play a Fender Telecaster myself.


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welcome to the brotherhood,

my first tele i dont remeber, but the first one i bought is still my number one, it is a 96( parts built in 95) AM Sstandard,with maple neck, it now has fralin blues pus in it and a glendale vintage 3 barrel bridge, and glendale pots, but i play it every shot i do

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flamekaster wrote:
welcome to the brotherhood,

my first tele i dont remeber, but the first one i bought is still my number one, it is a 96( parts built in 95) AM Sstandard,with maple neck, it now has fralin blues pus in it and a glendale vintage 3 barrel bridge, and glendale pots, but i play it every shot i do


Do you have the Fralin Blues specials? The ones with the uncovered neck pup? If so tell me how you like them, I have been looking into getting a get.

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I was spoilt rotten for tele goodness

The first one I played was a 56 that belonged to the bloke attempting to teach me to sight read. Really nice fella who built acoustics and lived down the bottom of the street. I'd only been playing a year, that was around 85/86.
The second was a tokai breezysound, the same bloke with the 56 said it was the culmination of the fender design. He found it flawless. That was 86/87.
I got bored of it and swapped it for a Marlin not-so-super-strat. Never played a tele like it since. That was around 86/87 too. Took me till recently to find another tele I like and could live with should I ever have to own just one guitar.

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