Lo-Fi wrote:They ain't the easiest guitar to play - it is like you have to pull the music out of them
Lo Fi,
OK Please explain to me why a tele is so hard to play.

It has the same scale as most Fender products, it isn't any harder to play than an SG, or a Flying V, or any other Gibson, Gretch, Ibanez, and on and on.
So what sets the Tele apart from all others as being so hard to play? People that say that make it sound like a Tele is a piece of crap that really takes a wizard to play it. My Tele isn't a junker. I can play anything I can play on my SG or Pauls or my F Hole Epiphone. In fact, I would venture to say that my Tele plays easier then a lot of my other guitars. Certainly easier than my Strat on some things.
I have a song on my Soundclick called "Tele Spanking" I did it with my Tele because it was too hard to play on a Strat. And it is just as tricky as anything I play on my Strat, with perhaps less effort due to the following.
You know that when you bend a string on a Strat (With trem) all the other strings detune. I can do double pulls and keep both strings in pitch through out the bend on my Strat, but it sure is a lot easier to do that on my Tele. When you do double bends on a Strat, you have to guess where that second string is going to be and have it pushed up to pitch before you hit it.
So I'm not gettin down wif you, I am just trying to express why I do not understand the logic in the statement that a Tele takes a master to play attitude of some pickers. Maybe they do know something I don't, but I am sure in the dark about it.

Sorry, had a brain fart when I first posted this I accidentally said easier to do on a Strat when I meant easier to do on a Tele. The way it was it just didn't make any sense. My dumb.