Old German archtops

billyshakes

They definitely decided to go political with this line!

Willie

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/114453#Comment_114453

Yes, this is strange. I looked around the web a bit. If tone wood with those Höfners is mentioned at all, then they say spruce (different vintage instrument websites, reverb and such).

DoubleWhisky

https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/114453#Comment_114453

https://germanjazzguitars.de/470-e2.html

Here it says "Massive Fichtendecke" (solid spruce top), so i guess you are right with the translation issue.

Edit: ok the one in the ad doesn't have pickups, but in the link it says the one with the pickups had the nickname Golden Höfner, so not sure if it's really the guitar just with pickups

Buco

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/114454#Comment_114454

With committee sitting above the president!

Buco

They're both evergreen so in the same wide pine family so that's probably where that came from.

DoubleWhisky

https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/114458#Comment_114458

The word german word "Pinie" is form of spruce so maybe that's were the mishap originates

BillDaCostaWilliams

Willie, that's the very same Hofner catalogue I used to drool over (and memorize the entire text) in the early 1960's. As a young schoolboy I couldn't afford anything like those instruments in our local music shop in Cork but the staff did allow me take home the catalogue.

Twenty years later in London I sourced a 1958 Senator which hangs on my wall today.

pdg

Probably above all those "govermental" names would be Harmony's "The Sovereign."

Willie

@DoubleWhisky this website you quoted https://germanjazzguitars.de/hoefner.html is a fine source of information, with interesting pictures:

wim

Whoa, that last one is ugly enough to rival some of the monstrosities in the Sicilian guitars thread