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The inevitable Hopf Saturn 63

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Showing the Hopf dreadnought two days ago reminded how my interest for guitars was expanded from instruments to play music to guitars as cultural objects - combining history, design, technology - because one of the triggers was seeing the famous Hopf Saturn 63, first its Eastwood reissue, then the real thing.

So far I already had good taste I guess since I owned a Rickenbacker 620 and an Ovation Breadwinner (quite abused by almost 20 years on stage), but they were uneducated choices, and I just got very lucky (and had a good local guitar shop, I'll never thank its owner enough). The Saturn opened my horizon, I discovered vintage guitars and the current vintage cult, alternative designs, I got into guitar making and blogging, and I improved my guitar playing by understanding much better my instruments!

The Saturn also revealed to me the unexpectedly broad field of German vintage guitars, about which I had no cue! And I can give you a little tip, if you want to buy a second hand guitar online, check eBay.de, it's the biggest market on continental Europe!

- Hopf Saturn 63 In Crème Brûlée Finish
guitarz.blogspot.com I've already stated that the Hopf Saturn 63 is one of my favorite guitars ever. I found one with a very rare finish, that fits well to its extremely elegant design. Just enjoy! Bertram D © 2013, Guitarz - The Original...

- Unidentified Hopf Solid-body
guitarz.blogspot.com You cannot have a full frontal picture of this beautiful Hopf guitar, because the mirror effect of its amazing chrome front plate would show the photographer - that is not the purpose (even if he/she is fully dressed). Hopf was probably...

- Late 1970s Hopf Studio
guitarz.blogspot.com I love this horned little devil Hopf Studio, I always enjoy a SG line with slightly longer and thiner horns, it makes it look feral and elegant at the same time. Like most vintage Hopf solid body guitars, the Studio is poorly documented...

- Osbama Tango Acoustic Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com The Osbama brand stands for Oswald Bachmann Markneukirchen - Markneukirchen being this town in Saxony (next to the Czech border) famous for its music industry since the late 17th century. Situated in GDR after the WWII,...

- 1982 Hopf 06325 Hw8 Acoustic Steel Strings Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.comHave you ever seen such a guitar? This Hopf acoustic guitar's sound-holes are pretty unique and fit well its modernist Dreadnought design (did you know that this body shape was created by Martin in 1916 to increase the volume and...

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