hofner by steinberger- any good?

in my local admag, someone is selling a second-hand hofner by steinberger. i remember seeing one in a guitar shop years ago. can anyone tell me about them, particularly about quality and value. Many thanks

If you mean Hohner, they were great for the money.

I have a Hofner Bass sat right here , and i can tell you it is quite superb. It has a active circut for extra ummph . Two Emg Select pick ups , kinda budget jobbies , but very apt .The neck is very sleek and flat with no buzzing or rattles . It really is an excellent all round instrument .....!

These were built under licence from Steinberger and have a good reputation. Ed Roman's site has (or had, I can't reach the site at the mo' a fair bit of info - www.edromanguitars.com/ - if you can stand the

Yep - I had a hohner jack custom. The headless one with the Steinberger licensed bridge, EMG select pickups, and two band preamp. I only sold it because big names beckoned and I wanted to upgrade. If I'm absolutely honest, nothing since has even come close in terms of performance/price. I used to take it out of the case at a gig and sit it on the stand without even thinking about tuning. I knew for a fact that it would be in tune. Great sound, great playability and easy to 'wear'.

I have had a Hohner Steinberger [1] for about 10 years. It was the first trem-equipped guitar I'd owned (yeah, really) and I assumed all trems were as stable - not so, as I later found out with a couple of Strats. Very versatile guitar, tonally - surprising considering how little wood there is. Comes in useful as a cricket bat, too.

It's also pretty indestructible, as I've discovered the hard way. The supplied soft case is flawed in that all the weight sits on the zip, which has burst many times. One time some friends were helping pack away after a gig, and I'd forgotten to warn them about the zip - which duly burst at the top of a flight of stairs. The guitar fell out and bounced all the way down - I thought 'oh well, that's the end of that then'. But we picked it up - checked it over - a couple of new dings, but it was fne - still in tune, even.

Nowadays I use it for slide - which is pretty dumb, since it means using the heaviest strings I can get (and double-ball end strings are tough to get in anything heavier than 10s), raising the action, and blocking off the trem. A bit of a waste, but sounds good.

Steve [1] http://www.steveellis.co.uk/images/steve_f.jpg - me with said Hohner

Forget the guitar - that shirt !! Those shoes !! Total showbusiness !!

Sir - I doff my cap . Which, incidentally, is not recommended in this weather with my rapidly depleting pate.

Actually they're motor-racing boots - the only soft/lace-up shoes I can find. Very comfybold - and the fact that they're fireproof may come in handy one day, ya nivver cin tell.

As for the shirt - I have quite a few of those - my most lurid one is referred to as the Gauguin-vomit shirt.

Thankee, thankee, from one depleted pate to another.

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Pretty much identical to the Music Yo 'cricket bat' version, although Hohner did do a full-body-with-headstock-tuners version with the P-trem (without tuners). I've seen them with the trem locking lever broken, which is probably easily done as it's not clearly visible, or if the guitar falls on the trem arm in the locked position. Have a look on the Music Yo website for a general idea. They used to go for around £150 but later retail was over £300 so a later model would be around £200 s/h apart from the MusicYo (Europe) models were cheaper at the sell off, a year ago, so I'd check their s/h prices first.

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