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HÖFNERS OLD & NEW

THE SECTION OF THE VINTAGE HOFNER WEBSITE WHICH DEALS WITH THE MANY GUITAR AND BASS GUITAR MODELS PRODUCED BY HOFNER FROM THE EARLY 1950'S TO THE PRESENT DAY.

 

 

Guy Audoux's Hofner Clubs. Perhaps that last glass of whisky wasn't such a good idea?
With thanks to François Charle Instruments de Musique à Cordes, Paris for the photography.

 

A beautiful 1960-61 Hofner 500/5 Bass Guitar, mated with a Vox amplifier in a Studio. Bliss!
(Thanks to Barry Frost for the photo.)

 

 

Thomas Stühlein, Hofner luthier, with one of the Limited Edition Hofner President Custom archtops that are now coming through the Hagenau workshop and are available throughout the dealer network by special order. Check out the very classy dark green finish!

 The current and recent Hofner models, including the above President Custom, are now fully illustrated on this website in the following Galleries - 

 

 

 Just about all of the German-made Hofner flattop guitars have now been categorised, dated, and described on this website. Hopefully this will help in the identification of Hofner's many Western, Concert Classical, and "Jugend/Wander" guitars. The individual gallery links are listed below:

 

 

Riccardo Abbondanza's Hofner 185 Solid Bass Guitar.

 

 

 

MAIN WEBSITE INDEX

 

Hofner 3-pickup Solid Guitar (Made in Spain) (3 Feb 2012)
1996/97 Hofner 500/1 "Standard II Limited Edition" Bass Guitar (13 Jan 2012)
Hofner Catalogue Covers 1931 to 1971 (3 Jan 2012)
1965/66 Hofner Verithin "65-3" (30 Dec 2011)
c1980 Hofner Model 167 Solid Guitar (29 Dec 2011)
1973 Hofner Model 497 Classical Guitar (22 Dec 2011)
2011 Hofner CT 500/1 Bass Guitar: Up-Graded (19 Dec 2011)
2011 Hofner New President Special LE (19 Dec 2011)



The easy way of finding what has arrived onto the website in the past two or three months:

Recent Additions to this Website




If you own a Hofner Committee, Golden, Deluxe, President, Verithin, Senator, Club, Congress, or 500/1 Violin Bass,  you can register it on this website. The details that you supply about your guitar will also be made available on the website to help us all understand further the development of that model. Other Hofner model registrations will be set up in the future.