1954 Fender Stratocaster #0001 vs Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Maple
The 1954 Fender Stratocaster #0001 and the Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Maple are both electric guitars. The Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Maple leans transparent.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.41% — somewhat different
1954 Fender Stratocaster #0001
Fender · electric guitar
Fender Stratocaster Sunburst Maple
Fender · electric guitar
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The Fender Stratocaster 0001 is a 1954 Stratocaster carrying the ceremonial serial number 0001, made by Leo Fender not as the literal first Stratocaster off the line (that distinction belongs to serial 0100, now owned by collector George Gruhn) but as a symbolic piece for a distributor. David Gilmour acquired it in 1978 from his guitar technician Phil Taylor, who had bought it from Seymour Duncan for 900 dollars. Gilmour used it on Pink Floyds The Wall, including the guitar line on Another Brick in the Wall Part 2, and has called it the perfect Stratocaster, though its rarity means it is seldom seen live.
Ritchie Blackmore played sunburst Stratocasters with maple fingerboards during his early years in Deep Purple, documented examples include an early 1971 sunburst with a maple board and four-screw neckplate and a later 1971 sunburst with a three-screw neckplate and bullet truss rod, and he was seen playing a 1970 sunburst maple-board Strat at Deep Purple's 1973 New York concert. These guitars predate the Olympic White, big-headstock, scalloped-fretboard Strats he became most associated with later in his career and during Rainbow, representing the more stock, unmodified end of his early Stratocaster use. The sunburst finish and maple board give a brighter, more traditional Strat voice than the modified guitars from his later signature era.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Rock
- Hard Rock
- transparent