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Clapton guitar tops $600,000 in rock memorabilia auction
A vintage Eric Clapton guitar sold for $625,000 in New York at a weekend auction of rock memorabilia that fetched nearly $5 million in total, Julien Auctions announced.
Leo Fender, inventor of Fender Guitars, never learned how to play the guitar
Born on Aug. 10, 1909, in California, Leo Fender was the founder of the Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, commonly known as just Fender. Besides being one of the most famous guitar manufacturers in the world, Fender was also the first company to mass-produce an electric guitar, the Fender Telecaster, which was introduced in 1950.