Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

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Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

Post by PJazzmaster » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:00 pm

Wow. I have NEVER seen that model before :o

http://www.vintageguitar.com/3806/hofne ... s-gitarre/

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Re: Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

Post by Telliot » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:01 pm

:derp:
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.

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Post by fuzzjunkie » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:44 pm

Inspiration for Spock's Vulcan lyre?

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Post by countertext » Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:08 pm

Somebody recently finished restoring one of these. Can’t remember where I read about it, but now there’s another clean example out there.

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Re: Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

Post by mgeek » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:28 am

These are cool, see also the Hoyer pipe guitar

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-apr-04 ... 63674.html

btw LOL at the copy in that article that sort of apologises for the guitar having a 'standard Hofner sixties neck shape, a bit thick'...it's not 1985 anymore gramps ;D

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Re: Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

Post by shadowplay » Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:41 am

...The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled...

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Are you loathsome tonight?

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Post by Con-Tiki! » Tue Mar 06, 2018 10:59 am

Lugosi would totally play that.
(Christopher, also)
I've been to one World's Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing i ever heard come out a pair of headphones.

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Re: Vintage Hofner FLEDERMAUS ( !!! )

Post by Singlebladepickup » Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:06 am

mgeek wrote:
Tue Mar 06, 2018 4:28 am
These are cool, see also the Hoyer pipe guitar

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-apr-04 ... 63674.html

btw LOL at the copy in that article that sort of apologises for the guitar having a 'standard Hofner sixties neck shape, a bit thick'...it's not 1985 anymore gramps ;D
That looks like some dollar-store inflatable guitar, I like it

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