encompassed the entire control cavity which saved production costs for Fender. Certain models of the Musicmaster, especially from between 1978 and 1980, were finished with a coat that reacted negatively with the base coat. This causes many modern surviving Musicmasters from this period to suffer from paint flaking off the body. The Musicmaster was produced until 1982 when it, the Bronco and the Mustang were dropped in favor of the newer Fender Bullet models. In 2020, Fender released a special version of the Musicmaster for the Shawn Mendes Music Foundation. It features 2 pickups, a single coil and a humbucker, and is the same as the 2020 Duo-Sonic other than the pickup configuration. Unlike the Duo Sonic, the neck pickup is a humbucker and the single coil is the bridge pickup. See also Fender Duo-Sonic Fender Mustang Fender Bronco Fender Swinger References "Fender's 3/4 Scale Guitars", a two-part article by Tim Pershing in 20th Century Guitar, December 1996 and January 1997. "Little Brothers Turn 50", an article by Terry Foster and Tim Pershing in Vintage Guitar, July 2006. Fender: The Golden Age, 1946–1970, a book by Martin Kelly, Terry Foster, Paul Kelly. London & New York: Cassell External links Inside a pre-production 1956 Fender Musicmaster Fender's 3/4 Scale Guitars Little Brothers Turn 50 Musicmaster Musical instruments invented in the 1950s