It is awesome at some of the nice guitars that are out there for a low price.Nice score,I'm keepin this one in my memory I need to replace an old jasmine.Sumi
Long story short:
I've been on the lookout for a nice parlor size acoustic for some time. Today, I found exactly what I wanted - the new Hohner Essential Series EL-SP Plus Parlor!
You can go to www.hohnerusa.com and here: http://www.hohnerusa.com/essentialseries.html and read up on what makes this guitar a bit different re "resonance"-matching woods and the Earvana compensated nut and bridge for "true intonation" across the fretboard (and all the specs: solid spruce top, laminated mahog back n sides, etc...).
It's a very plain-jane, satin-finished looker. No pickguard. Comes strung w D'addario 11s. And all this w a street price of $249!!!!
I saw a full page ad in December's Acoustic Guitar Mag about this Essential Challenge. Basically, Hohner will send you a free hat just for comparing this guitar to a Martin 000X-1 and a Taylor Big Baby. One of my two local music shops is listed in the ad as a Hohner dealer, so I trotted on up there, played the Hohner, and was sold on the spot!
Really quite a lovely piece of work, this little Hohner! Who knew?
I love it!
bigG
Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded Cherry Mahogany, Peavey HP Signature EXP, Epi Sheraton II, Fender Standard Fat Strat, original 1982 Made in the USA Fender Bullet (w original HSC)/ 2005 Martin HD-7 Roger McGuinn Signature Edition (#102 of 250), Martin M-36 (0000), Martin OM-21, Martin 000-15M, Hohner EL-SP Plus Parlor acoustic
Amps: Swart Space Tone 6V6se, Swart Night Light Power Attenuator/compressor/stereo line-out, Peavey Windsor Studio, Vox AD50VT, Fender Super Champ XD, Vox DA15, Marshall MG10KK, '83 Peavey Bandit 65
Pedals: Cry Baby 535q wah, Bad Monkey OD, Boss DS-1, Sabine FuzzStortion, HardWire RV-7 Reverb
www.swartamps.com
www.ericjosephelectricguitars.com
Carpe diem, brother, cause you don't know how many diems you have left to carpe.
It is awesome at some of the nice guitars that are out there for a low price.Nice score,I'm keepin this one in my memory I need to replace an old jasmine.Sumi
Guitars,Warmoth Tele,90's Fender Strat Plus/Fender CV 50's Tele/Parker p-36/Fretlight/Custom Strat(Fender body/warmoth Clapton neck,tonerider pups)Larrivee L03 mahogany acoustic
Amphs/66 Super Reverb/60's Bandmaster head and 2/12 cab/Blues jr//epi valve jr/supro super/ ZT lunchbox/Mahaffay Little Laneilei 3350/Pignose g40v
Pedals/Voods Rodent/MXR carbon copy/Duncan Pickup booster/Ts9/Rat/ts10/Line 6 tone port uk2
Line 6 M13
Betchadidn't know:many of the better model of Hohner guitars used to be (may still be, haven't checked lately) made in Korea by.....Crafter!Originally Posted by bigG
So, you could (maybe) say you've got 2 Crafters now.
That's how my local dealer got a special deal a few years ago on a bunch of Crafters....thru his Hohner (harmonica) rep, when Crafter opened their USA marketing office, at the time, in Virginia. Until then, Crafter (the brand) was a Europe/Asia market product. In the USA, they were branded (and marketed by) Hohner.
Congrats, G.
^^
AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
I've played a few Hohners in the last couple of years and really liked them. Sounds like you got yourself a pretty good one. Congrats.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Congrats! You buy guitars like they are about be extinct!
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Very sweet little parlor.
I checked out the Hofner page. Seems like a lot of guitar for $250!!!
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Guitars: Dean Sweet Wood 00R, Martin D2R, Guild D60, Guild D35NT, Morgan Monroe M30, OS baritone Uke
Thanks all! She's a sweety!
sumi: it's a sleeper/keeper for sure!
wingsdad: Thanks for the info. This one is made in China, but, for all I know, it could still be Crafter-China (?). I did discover that the company that owns Hohner is in Germany, fwiw...
spud: There are a few older, less expensive Hohners at the other shop in town, and, honestly, I never paid them any attention. More of a backroom stock starter guitar, those models...
Robert: it's more that I'm afraid of ME becoming extinct! At 59, you start to think about gettin' everything you can out of life as the days grow shorter...
evenkeel: it truly is an amazing "alot of guitar" for $250! I couldn't be happier; with the Hohner "discovery", this Hohner guitar, and the Hohner price!
Thanks again guys!
G
bigG
Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded Cherry Mahogany, Peavey HP Signature EXP, Epi Sheraton II, Fender Standard Fat Strat, original 1982 Made in the USA Fender Bullet (w original HSC)/ 2005 Martin HD-7 Roger McGuinn Signature Edition (#102 of 250), Martin M-36 (0000), Martin OM-21, Martin 000-15M, Hohner EL-SP Plus Parlor acoustic
Amps: Swart Space Tone 6V6se, Swart Night Light Power Attenuator/compressor/stereo line-out, Peavey Windsor Studio, Vox AD50VT, Fender Super Champ XD, Vox DA15, Marshall MG10KK, '83 Peavey Bandit 65
Pedals: Cry Baby 535q wah, Bad Monkey OD, Boss DS-1, Sabine FuzzStortion, HardWire RV-7 Reverb
www.swartamps.com
www.ericjosephelectricguitars.com
Carpe diem, brother, cause you don't know how many diems you have left to carpe.
Hohner makes a helluva guitar. I've owned a couple that were really nice...
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Cool BigG! Have fun with it!
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
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Looks nice. Wide nut too.
Electric: Fat strat > Korg PB > TS7 > DS1 > DD-20 > Cube 60 (Fender model)
Acoustic: Guitar > microphone > audience
Very cool BigG.
I'm in the market for an acoustic for my 21 year-old son the christmas.
I was thinking of going with a used Seagull, but this might be the ticket.
He loves to play Jack Johnson and the Beatles.
Can anyone help me with the style of guitar? Folk maybe?
He is 5 foot 5 inches tall and his hands are rather small.
I pick a moon dog.
I'm only an inch or two taller than your son, also rather small hands. A 000/auditorium/folk size guitar would be a good option. Be careful however, as the wide fretboard, 1 3/4 at the nut, on some of the folk/auditorium/000 guitars may be a problem.Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
The washburn f10 would be a great starter guitar in the 000 category. This is 000 size cousin to the very popular Washie D10. Solid spruce top, lam back and sides and a 1 11/16" neck. Lots of bang for the buck.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.
There's also a negative side."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Guitars: Dean Sweet Wood 00R, Martin D2R, Guild D60, Guild D35NT, Morgan Monroe M30, OS baritone Uke
Tot,
Good suggestions from 'keel on smaller body shapes/size. But with smaller hands, you may want to focus on even narrow nut-widths than 1 11/16. Seagulls, I believe are around that. While that's better for fingerstyling, for chording/strumming like Jack Johnson, 1 5/8 ---just a 1/16" narrower -- may make a difference. Not so much at the nut and lower positions, but as you go up the neck. To that end, try to see the specs on width at the 12th fret...often available brwosing online, but perhaps by email to the mfr's cust. service dept.
Then there's another route...a 3/4 scale. Besides the narrower neck/fingerboard, the frets will be closer together. Since your boy likes the Beatles, too, let's not forget that John Lennon's early-period Beatles favored Rick 325 -- short scale, or as he called it 'short-armed'. He dug it because it made grabbing chords otherwise hard to handle on full-scale guitars much easier to finger and reach extensions.
They're out there, but to name just one I'm familiar with from my local dealer, Washburn's Oscar Schmidt line is low-priced, and they make a very decent little guy...the list price is on this page I've linked to about it, so figure at least 30% lower than that:
Oscar Schmidt OG-1
^^
AXES: Fender '81 The STRAT, '12 Standard Tele, '78 Musicmaster Bass, '13 CN-240SCE Thinline; Rickenbacker '82 360-12BWB; Epiphone '05 Casino, '08 John Lennon EJ-160E; Guild '70 D-40NT; Ovation '99 Celebrity CS-257; Yamaha '96 FG411CE-12; Washburn '05 M6SW Mando, '08 Oscar Schmidt OU250Bell Uke; Johnson '96 JR-200-SB Squareneck Reso; Hofner '07 Icon B-Bass; Ibanez '12 AR-325. AMPS: Tech 21 Trademark 10; Peavey ValveKing Royal 8; Fender Acoustonic 90, Passport Mini, Mini Tonemaster; Marshall MS-2 Micro Stack; Behringer BX-108 Thunderbird; Tom Scholz Rockman. PEDALS/FX: Boss ME-50; Yamaha EMP100; Stage DE-1; Samson C-Com 16 L.R. Baggs ParaAcoustic D.I; MXR EQ-10.
Thanks Even & Wings.
Are 3/4 scale guitars really an option? Do they sound small?
We should move this discussion elsewhere as I don't want to take over bigG's Hohner thread.
I pick a moon dog.
Thanks again, folks!
tot, no problem for me if discussed on this thread. Go right ahead. (Although it might get lost, whereas a proper new thread would invite more attention and discussion...?)
G
PS: IMHO, 3/4 guitars of the acoustic variety do sound noticeably "boxier", which is understandable. The bodies are REALLY small, like a Baby Taylor.
bigG
Guitars:
Gibson Les Paul Studio Faded Cherry Mahogany, Peavey HP Signature EXP, Epi Sheraton II, Fender Standard Fat Strat, original 1982 Made in the USA Fender Bullet (w original HSC)/ 2005 Martin HD-7 Roger McGuinn Signature Edition (#102 of 250), Martin M-36 (0000), Martin OM-21, Martin 000-15M, Hohner EL-SP Plus Parlor acoustic
Amps: Swart Space Tone 6V6se, Swart Night Light Power Attenuator/compressor/stereo line-out, Peavey Windsor Studio, Vox AD50VT, Fender Super Champ XD, Vox DA15, Marshall MG10KK, '83 Peavey Bandit 65
Pedals: Cry Baby 535q wah, Bad Monkey OD, Boss DS-1, Sabine FuzzStortion, HardWire RV-7 Reverb
www.swartamps.com
www.ericjosephelectricguitars.com
Carpe diem, brother, cause you don't know how many diems you have left to carpe.
Yeah, bigG's cool with it, but like he sez, this side-topic is prob'ly lost in here.Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
As for your question on 'size-of-sound'...similar to most smaller body acoustics (parlor, OM's).