The Mustang has one of Fender's best vibrato systems.
There is a 3 way switch above each pickup that can reverse the pickups polarity, which comes in handy with single coil pickups that tend to pick up 60 cycle hum. It still is a great guitar with some unique features. The Thunderbird came with some unusual electronics, a vibrato bar and a spring loaded metal bar that was built into the guitars profiled the Fender Mustang a few years back. Perhaps it was Guilds answer to the Fender Jazzmaster. Its body sort of resembled the clay cartoon figure Gumby. The Guild Thunderbird was a real anomaly. In 1965 Guild came out with some strange looking electric guitars. I've seen this guitar offered with only a single pickup, that was usually mounted by the bridge although some came with a pickup in the neck position. Guild also offered a Starfire Bass Guitar. Guild offered some traditional looking hollow body and semi-hollow body models such as the T-100, the Starfire, the Capri and the DE-400 model.ĭE stood for Duane Eddy, who was using this guitar at the time. Although these were great amps, due to the electronic design, they never seemed to have the power and tone of Fender amps and subsequently were not as popular. The Skylark, The Minuteman, The Explorer and others were more Fender-like with the control panel facing forward. I was 12 years old in 1964 when my Dad took me to Will’s Pawn Shop in downtown Cincinnati Ohio to pick out a guitar. Aside from that, the quality of 1965's budget guitars was "iffy." Some guitars and basses made fifty years ago were downright unplayable. The tubes got hot and frequently burnt out. In all honesty some of the tube amps featured in those days were not all that great. For many years since '65, guitarists have sought that warm tube tone and breakup, but in 1965 when a clean sound with lots of headroom was desirable, most low wattage tube amps distorted like crazy. Ironically in 1965 most of the amplifiers available were tube amps. Research, development and upgrades in amplifier modeling have given even a small practice amp some very usable tones that would make a kid from 1965 envious. Although computers were available they were large enough to fill a room and did not have much memory. Musical instruments are now made with computer aided design and CNC tools that give them excellent tonality.50 years ago there were no computerized tools.
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