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Topic: Some of this is Hofner! |
Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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basilh
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United Kingdom
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Posted 30 Jul 2006 12:05 am |
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Why not Dave, you know that the 'Trades Descriptions Act' make it illegal to lie, so it MUST be true :- it ,says " VINTAGE c.1960'S ELECTRIC HOFNER STEEL GUITAR"
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so that's what it MUST be .. Forget the fact that the string length is probably 27" and the bridge is CURVED and the fretboard has ACTUAL frets, and there's NO CONTROLS, Hofner made this, their name is on the Pick-up !!
Interestingly the description also states that it's "INLAID WITH MOTHER OF PEARL ON THE FRETS" note the 'ON the frets, that must have been quite tricky to do, mother of pearl on top of brass or did Hofner use Nickel silver frets. (MY Golden has Nickel Silver ones, but even those aren't INLAID) this MUST be a very rare guitar,
probably if Carlsberg made guitars !!!!!! |
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Jim Phelps
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 30 Jul 2006 6:14 am
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| Good thing you ducked Jim LOL |
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 30 Jul 2006 8:08 am
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The best thing about it is the sellers name.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 30 Jul 2006 10:19 am
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Notice that the instrument comes from England. The availability of steel guitars in England during the 60s was virtually nil, so we all built our own from whatever was available. Hofner guitars were popular because no Fenders were imported, so you could get Hofner spares from Germany or just off a broken guitar. The first Fender to enter the country, as far as legend goes, was one brought in in the luggage of Hank Marvin, lead guitarist of the Shadows, Cliff Richard's backing group, upon return from a professional vacation.
The musical position in England at the time was that any American artist visiting had to leave his band behind most of the time and use local musicians, because of union contracts. I understand that Bill Haley got round that by joining the union for a while. But then, Bill Haley's parents were English, so he was a dual citizen.
It always amuses me how the Hofners and other non-American instruments played by the Mersey groups have become cult collectors' items. They bought them because they couldn't get their hands of Fenders, Gibsons, Guilds, Martins. Yamaha got their best break in England during the 60s because there were virtually no Martins, and the Yamaha FG180 was an exact copy.[This message was edited by Alan F. Brookes on 30 July 2006 at 11:20 AM.] |
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