1966 fender musicmaster 23/28/2023 Competition Mustangs were available with color-matched headstocks until mid-1971. The Competition Mustangs came in red with cream stripes, Burgundy with light blue stripes and orange with dark orange stripes. These were essentially Mustangs with a different paint scheme and a thin-thick-thin stripe running from below the left waist down to the heel of the guitar. In 1969 Fender replaced the Mustang with ‘Competition’ Mustangs. Although some custom mustangs were manufactured with a 22-1/2″ scale, these were discontinued in the late 1960s. As with many Fender Guitars in the early CBS era, in 1966 the Mustang design was changed to incorporate a larger headstock. In 1969, the body design was updated to include forearm and back contours. The Mustang body from 1964 through to 1969 was fashioned from a solid slab of wood (similar to the Telecaster). The Mustang found early success as an economical way for musicians to obtain a quality built, versatile, upgradable instrument. With its Fender design principles, it was easy to maintain, repair, modify and upgrade pickups and wiring. The red and blue models featured white pearl pickguards and black pickup covers and black slider switches, while the white models sported a tortoise-pearl pickguard, white pickup covers and slider switches.īecause the Mustang was marketed as a student guitar, it was moderately priced at $189.50. The initial release of the Mustang was available in red, white and blue (note: not the standard named Fender colors Dakota Red, Daphne Blue, and Olympic White). The Mustang had a smaller Telecaster style headstock, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. The Mustang was the first student model to feature tremolo, with a floating bridge and introducing the new ‘Fender Dynamic Vibrato’ system with a sensitive tailpiece (similar to that of the Jazzmaster). Rather than a selector switch, each pickup had an individual switch that could be set to on, off, or out of phase, and its volume and tone knobs were mounted on a chrome plate attached to the lower treble bout. The most distinctive feature of the Mustang is the two single coil-pickups both positioned at an angle sloping bass to treble towards the bridge. The Mustang also borrowed from the stylings of the Jaguar and Jazzmaster with an offset waist body design. The Mustang had a 24″ scale neck with 22-frets standard, although a limited number of custom models at the time were made with a 22.5-inch scale. These earlier student models had a 22.5 inch (or 3/4) scale and 21-frets. The Mustang is heavily based on two earlier student models from 1956 the single pickup Fender Musicmaster and dual-pickup Fender Duo-Sonic. It was initially intended for the student market. The Fender Mustang was released in August 1964.
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