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Fender TR 105

wireless remote system for electric guitars, basses and accordions

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2024
Entity authorityQ5443271 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fender TR 105 was a wireless remote system with a range of up to 60 feet, for electric guitars, basses and accordions. The system introduced by Fender in 1961. Jeff Owens writes, "...the TR 105 worked reasonably well, but it didn't catch on and was discontinued in less than a year." MusicRadar traces the availability of cable-free set-ups to this model.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fender TR 105” is wireless remote system for electric guitars, basses and accordions. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fender, wireless and remote, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961. For this dossier, Fender, wireless and remote is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 16, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5443271. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fender TR 105” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.