#höfner

[absolutely60s]

[nightisthenotion]

Paul and His '63 Höfner

[tavolgisvist]

Billy Kinsley, bassist for The Merseybeats, recalls hanging out in Hessy's one rainy afternoon with the group's guitarist, Tony Crane, when John Lennon walked into the shop [Frank Hessy's music store]. "He had the Bigsby on his Rickenbacker, but he kept losing the spring from it. In Liverpool at the time you couldn't get spare parts, like in America. So Jim Gretty would nick one from another Bigsby. Jim was a friend of John's, and he'd tell him to nick a spring off another guitar. "Also that day I remember telling John that I'd ordered a Gibson bass from the States, a little EB-0, and he said that he and George really wanted Paul to get a different bass. They didn't like the violin bass, and they wanted him to get an EB-0. Obviously this was before The Beatles were famous, before the rest of the world saw that violin bass - and it became Paul's trademark. But I often wonder what would have happened if he'd got one of those little Gibsons."

(Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio Hardcover by Andy Babiuk, 2010)

[krispyweiss]

Paul McCartney’s Bass No Longer on the Run

- Missing since 1970, McCartney’s 1961 Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass gets back to where it once belonged

Let it in: the bass on the run got back to where it once belonged.

Paul McCartney’s long-lost 1961 Höfner 500/1 Violin Bass has been found and returned.

The instrument, which McCartney played at Hamburg’s Top Ten Club and Liverpool’s Cavern Club and on “Love Me Do,” “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout” and other tracks, disappeared in 1970 as the Beatles recorded Let in Be and in 2023 became the focus of Höfner’s Lost Bass Project.

A student who said he’d inherited the bass has returned it to McCartney, the Guardian reported without detailing the instrument’s long and winding road.

A McCartney spokesperson confirmed things are getting better and the bass shall not be leaving home again.

“The guitar has been authenticated by Höfner and Paul is incredibly grateful to all those involved,” the spokesperson said.

And a big fuh you to whomever took the thing in the first place.

2/15/24

[amerkloster]

Fixing up this old German Höfner acoustic guitar. It needs a little fix for the bow on the neck, some urgent fretboard care, some glue under the bridge, and ofc new strings.

The bridge has started to give away after years of being strung.

[fuzzkaizer]

Hofner - PRE-AMP

"... isn’t really a pedal at all, but it’s plays a very significant part in early electric guitar! This is a Hofner Pre-Amp, made in England during the 1950’s. If you were a beginner guitarist and couldn’t afford one of those new and expensive guitar amplifiers, the Hofner Pre-Amp is there to convert your (tube) Hifi Receiver or Radio console into your very own guitar amp! Just plug the banana clips into the “Phono” input and flip the switch 💥 Utilizing a Mullard OC71 germanium transistor and a very simple boost circuit, it’s no surprise that the 1960’s Dallas Rangemaster circuit is very eerily similar to that of the Hofner Pre-Amp."

cred: instagram.com/djlavalamp

[spacebeach23]

1956 HOFNER COMMITTEE

from: https://notomguitars.com/products/1956-hofner-committee

[claustrophobicandexcatholic]

Here’s the self portrait again but this time with my new watermark!