Did you know that the three guitars offered by Fender with the Mustang style body, the Mustang, the Musicmaster II and the Duo-Sonic II were available with a 21 fret 22.5 inch scale neck or a 22 fret 24 inch scale neck? That's correct. They were offered in both scale lengths when they were originally issued in the 1960's. However, the short 22.5 scale was optional and is now rather rare.
Even the 24 inch scale is short compared to other guitars. It is 3/4 of an inch shorter than the Gibson Les Paul and 1 1/2 inches shorter than the Fender standard used in the Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars.
The short scale neck that was used in these guitars makes it great for people with smaller hands to reach chords and it makes for easy rhythm playing. The short 22.5 inch scale was used again in reissues of the Duosonic and Mustang in the 1990's.
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