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- Herbert Todt / Pergold Violin Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com This astonishing violin bass was created by luthier Herbert Todt for East-German company Pergold - that was probably a brand used by workers of bigger companies in Markneukirchen like Musima when they made higher end instruments...
- Perl Gold Archtop
guitarz.blogspot.com We've already shown a very similar PerlGold archtop guitar a couple of years ago (here) but I don't know if the differences of finish, knobs, headstock and pickguard are just cosmetic or indicate different models....
- Unidentified Customised German Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comI have no idea what this guitar might be... It's much likely German from the 1970s, though the shape makes me think of a Defil - a Polish brand. The pickups look quite Musima - or one of the many Markneukirchen guitar brands -,...
- Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a
guitarz.blogspot.com This Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a is a quite sober guitar compared to the flamboyant jazz/acoustic guitars this brand offered in the 1950s: no special finish, no German carve nor carved top, no complex binding, regular F-holes... No,...
- Strangely Shaped Guitar With Rellog Gitona Pickups
guitarz.blogspot.com This strangely shaped vintage German guitar set with Rellog Gitona pickups is much probably a Herrnsdorf - considering its characteristic headstock and prolongated fretboard -, though it doesn't sport any brand... I cannot...
Guitar
Musima Herrnsdorf archtop
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Here is a good old DDR Musima-Herrnsdorf archtop. Herrnsdorf was another Markneukirchen-based instruments company started in the 19th century, turned electric in the 1950s - producing inevitably cool Schlaggitarren, mother-of-toilet-seat covered Hawaiian guitars and solid body upright basses - then merged with Musima in the early 1970s. The top of the guitar sports a Musima logo and the all-in-one scratchplate / control plate / pickup cover the Herrnsdorf brand.
It seems unlikely that in the 1970s anybody would still produce this kind of device to turn an acoustic archtop into an electric one so I guess this guitar is probably old stock put together - after all Herrsndorf pickups were also known as Rellog, a quite famous East-German brand, so they had to be used, even if the guitar itself - though elegant and well proportioned - has nothing of the flamboyant models of the 1950s...
Bertram D
© 2012, Guitarz - The Original Guitar Blog - 10 years and counting!
- Herbert Todt / Pergold Violin Bass
guitarz.blogspot.com This astonishing violin bass was created by luthier Herbert Todt for East-German company Pergold - that was probably a brand used by workers of bigger companies in Markneukirchen like Musima when they made higher end instruments...
- Perl Gold Archtop
guitarz.blogspot.com We've already shown a very similar PerlGold archtop guitar a couple of years ago (here) but I don't know if the differences of finish, knobs, headstock and pickguard are just cosmetic or indicate different models....
- Unidentified Customised German Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comI have no idea what this guitar might be... It's much likely German from the 1970s, though the shape makes me think of a Defil - a Polish brand. The pickups look quite Musima - or one of the many Markneukirchen guitar brands -,...
- Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a
guitarz.blogspot.com This Arnold Hoyer Esquire 19a is a quite sober guitar compared to the flamboyant jazz/acoustic guitars this brand offered in the 1950s: no special finish, no German carve nor carved top, no complex binding, regular F-holes... No,...
- Strangely Shaped Guitar With Rellog Gitona Pickups
guitarz.blogspot.com This strangely shaped vintage German guitar set with Rellog Gitona pickups is much probably a Herrnsdorf - considering its characteristic headstock and prolongated fretboard -, though it doesn't sport any brand... I cannot...