hohner questions

[i want a d100]

I picked up a strange guild clone 12 string a few years back and again i'm checking if anyone knows anything about how such a guitar came to be made, the model is a HG 741. It is a f design, has the guild pick guard shape, it's made out of maple, and it has a spruce top. It's ebony fingerboard with what looks like abalone inserts is a beautiful design, the soul reason i bought it was sound, for years i had played around with the idea of getting a 12 string so i could learn to play hotel california, everyone i picked up mostly yamaha's didn't ring anything like a 6 string counterpart, finally in a consignment shop in southern Rhode Island they had this hohner, i just strummed it once and bang, that's a ringing 12 string. Everytime i pick it up it pleases,since it didn't cost much it doesn't have much to prove, i think of it as my guild clone, but i can't find any info about it anywhere, if someone has some info i would like to hear it.

 

[kakerlak]

You know, I had a Hohner once. If yours is of a similar vintage, which I'm guessing by the description, not a bad guitar! Mine was a Martin D-45 copy, well made, Japanese solid top acoustic, pretty rosewood back and sides, decent tuners, gaudy fake abalone binding, etc. It did have a 70's style adjustable bridge on it, but it was pretty loud and even-sounding. I suspect that they were probably making a run of guitars that copied misc. American brands' designs around that time. I never really learned much about them, but I don't see them that often. I have seen some newer Hohner guitars which were cheaper, Korean/Chinese entry-level instruments.

The 70s was an interesting time for Japanese manufacturers. Really, most of the solid top acoustics from Yamaha, Takamine, Hohner and a host of others that came out of Japan in the 70s and 80s are all pretty decent guitars. A lot of them are just a hair away from being great ones.