[Hohner Guitar Models
Betty Neyhart
HOHNER has stopped the production of guitars for some time. If you are looking for information about the instruments manufactured at that time, you will find all available product details for almost all models in the document below. There is no claim to completeness.
Hi everyone. I would be very thankful if someone would tell me the year of manufacturing of two TE Prinz models, that is the Tele-like Prince guitars Hohner made in various reissues on the 80s and 90s.
Hi Paul! Please excuse my late reply. I am happy to help you here. Both serial numbers you mention: C106056 and C100455 belong to models made in 1991 in Korea.
The HOHNER Professional The Prinz was introduced in 1985 and remained part of the assortment until 1994. First they were made in Korea and later in the early 90s in Indonesia.
Hi Kristin, some time ago i bought a hohner guitar from a friend. Since then i have been trying to find the model of the guitar or even the serial number but i couldnt find it. Can you help me? It is an electric guitar, color red, it has a dual coil and then two single coils close to the bridge, in the head it only says Rockwood by Hohner. I hope you can help me!
A neighbor gave me this guitar when cleaning out his basement. I was looking for any information. It is made by Hohner and it has serial number 78964 on the back. Any further information would be appreciated. Does it look like it might be an HG-430 LP of some type? Assuming the serial number conventions in the rest of this post was it made in 78?
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B2A - Any help greatly appreciated!
I bought a lovely little B2A twenty years ago 2nd hand through a friend and it rapidly became favourite over a number of other vintage basses that I owned. I had to do some remedial wiring yesterday and wondered how old it actually was. Unfortunately I cannot find a serial number anywhere on the body or inside the pre-amp box. It is fitted with EMGs and the Steinberg bridge but I am guessing that is / was standard - or was it?
As I say I bought it in 2000 and although it was well used but in A1 condition I have done little to it other than regularly change strings and set it up as needed including replacing the very tired wiring! So can anyone out there in Hohnerland point me towards any other little hiding places the ser number might be please and thank you?
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Hi, I have a Hohner electric guitar, the serial number is 88988, how can I find the model and year of made? I would also like to find out its value too, thank you.
Hi Celia always help out youngster starting out what i can find out
may not be correct, If you go to guitar serial no. PDF Page 32
HG430 LPT 250 i put your guitar in as there was no picture.
This was hand made in Japan and extremely well made. It had spruce top, rosewood sides and back, ebony neck, and black pick guard. There was HOHNER decal on the headstock, reminiscent of a Martin D-35. There was a herringbone binding and back strip with small, simple fleur-de-lis fingerboard dots.
I too have an HG 310 LE and I can confirm some of what you are saying. They were definitely made priority 1978 as I bought mine in the fall of 1976. On the label inside it is stamped 7-76 so my assumption was it was made in July 1976. I was 18 at the time I bought it and I paid $200 US for it and a non-matching HSC. The dealer I bought it from said that he had recently started carrying the line and thought this LE was some sort if Bicentennial promotion. I like to tell people it was made on the 4th of July.
Mine, like yours, has herringbone bracing and does not contain a serial number. Mine has a rosewood fingerboard and has the same fleur-de-lis inlays. The Hohner name is also inlayed with the same material in the headstock, with the name going down the middle of the headstock similar to what Martin does with the D-45.
I recently purchased a HG-805 Limited Edition from the original owner, He purchased the guitar in Oct 1981. Beautiful instrument. Solid maple book matched flame maple back, and sides, solid top ( species spruce ?) bound rosewood fingerboard, body and f-holes, ebony bridge. Body is 14 3/4" x 2 1/2" with a 24 3/4" S.L.
The original owner told me that when he purchased the guitar from Rockin Robin Guitars in Houston ( they are still in buisness!) that this was a non production guitar and that there were only 14 of these models built.
Around 1961, Hohner London had a series of solid body guitars made for them in England. This is a Zambesi. Other models include Amazon, Apache, Holborn and the Ambasso bass, which all had a similar logo or no maker logo at all.
The remaining acoustic guitars in the range used a script font. Often these were folk guitars rather than dreadnoughts and had been carried over from the Contessa range, which used a similar font and placement for the logo. But there are exceptions. The picture above shows an HG-200, which is a dreadnought but one that had a Contessa equivalent model. Sometimes models that started with a script logo have been seen with the teacup handle logo. Production moved factories and even countries (to Korea) in the life of these guitars and the logo change may be indicative of that.
By the early 1980s, Telecaster and Stratocaster copies were using a bold black version of the teacup handle logo first seen on the HG-490. Above is an MS35 (UK designation). Les Paul and SG copies used the same script logo as before.
When production of electric guitars moved to Korea, a small number of Stratocaster and Telecaster copies were made with a very small version of the straight horizontal teacup but with a more exaggerated scroll on the R.
One of the guitars introduced into the Hohner Professional range in 1985 was the TE Prinz. This was a copy of the very rare Hohner HG-490, since made famous by Prince. Hohner made versions of this guitar on and off for the next 25 years.
Somewhere around 1998, the SE 400 was dropped and the HS 40 introduced. It was basically the same specifications and still called the Super Jazzline but it now had a cursive script logo. The HS 40 went though a few variations after that but the logo stayed the same.
Hello Selekter,
Sorry to read that you have so much trouble finding out more about your guitars. The Hohner archive has a lot of blank spaces.
What I found is there was a heavy metal model named RockwoodPRO RP450G. This guitar was built in the middle to late nineties.
The HOHNER Professional The Prinz was introduced in 1985 and remained part of the assortment until 1994. First they were made in Korea and later in the early 90s in Indonesia.
hello, it appears that the RP450G is not properly reported in the HOHNER - HISTORICAL GUITAR MODELS PDF guide. did you look at the pics sent by Marttty in this discussion? clearly the RP450G that we both own are superstrat models. is there anybody in charge of the OHNER - HISTORICAL GUITAR MODELS PDF guide around you who could have a look and make corrections ?
From the 1940s through 1990s, the company also manufactured various electric/electronic keyboards. Especially in the 1960s and 1990s, they manufactured a range of innovative and popular electromechanical keyboard instruments; the cembalet, pianet, basset, guitaret, and clavinet. In the 1980s, several Casio synthesizers (such as the Casio HT-3000/Hohner KS61midi and the VZ-1/HS-2) were sold under the Hohner brand.
Clock maker Matthias Hohner began crafting diatonic harmonicas in 1857, assisted by his wife and a single employee. 650 were made in the first year.[1]Hohner harmonicas quickly became popular, and in his lifetime Matthias built the largest harmonica factory in the world.[2]During the American Civil War, Matthias Hohner distributed harmonicas to family members in the United States who in turn gave them to the soldiers.[3]
In the 1920s, Hohner began manufacturing chromatic harmonicas, which unlike the "standard" diatonic form can be played in any key. Famous harmonicist Borrah Minevitch claimed he sold his design for the chromatic harmonica to Hohner.[4]
In 1964 Hohner released "The Beatles Harmonica Kit" which was sold in a blister package, much like most Hohner harmonicas nowadays, retailed for $2.95, and help what Hohner calls "bring about a new popularity upsurge of the Hohner harmonica on both sides of the Atlantic.".[5]
Matthias Karl Hohner, son of Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Hohner [de] and a direct descendant in fourth generation and name bearer of the founder Matthias Hohner [de], was one of the last members of the Hohner dynasty involved in managing the family business, he worked since 1924 at the company and in 1965 he became the president till 1971 when he died.[6] His son Matthias Francisco Hohner belonged to the first generation of direct descendants who did not enter into the family business. Many direct descendants of the founder are still active as members of the "Deutsches Harmonika Museum" and the "Hohner'sche Familienverein".
In 1989, a controlling interest in Hohner was acquired by Kunz-Holding GmbH & Co., a German wood products manufacturer. Kunz obtained 67 percent of the public firm, with the Hohner family retaining an 8 percent stake.[7]
In 1997, the Taiwanese company KHS Musical Instruments bought a majority holding in Hohner from Kunz via the Tortola based HS Investments Group.[7] The company returned to profitability in 2001, after more than 20 years of losses.[8] By 2012, HS Investments Group held a 75% stake in Hohner.
"The Marine Band" is the base model of the line. Technically named the Marine Band 1896/20 for the year it was introduced and the twenty reeds it possesses, it has been the basis of a number of Hohner's harmonicas over the years. It also has some tuning variations like the 1896N (natural minor key) and the 1896H (harmonic minor key).[9]
The Marine Band has been Hohner's most popular model of harmonica for generations. Made in Germany on a wood comb, most blues and rock artists play a Marine Band. Several noted users are Bob Dylan, Brian Jones, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Little Walter and Neil Young.[10] There are various subdivisions of the Marine Band.
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