Hohner Guitar

Written by dreach on September 27, 2008 – 12:34 am -

I was just reading an article about Prince’s Hohner guitar (a tele look alike) and it kind of got me thinking about Hohner guitars.  So I did a search in our acoustic guitar shop and low and behold there are a lot of Hohner guitars for sale. The founder of Hohner was Matthias Hohner, a young German fellow who at age 24 founded the company in 1857. In those days the company produced harmonicas and still does today. In fact, the Hohner company and Bob Dylan recently announced the Bob Dylan Collection of hand-signed harmonicas. The guitars however did not begun production until the 1970s. The Hohner Telecaster played by Prince was built in the early 70s. and played on his early albums from “For You” to “Prince”, “Dirty... more


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