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• ↓ A site for vintage guitar buffs, with plenty of photos of old Hofner guitars from the 50's and 60's, together with sections on Selmer, Watkins/WEM, Bird, Fenton-Weill, Grampion, Dallas, and Elpico Amps.
• ↓ ***** THIS IS THE VINTAGE HOFNER WEBSITE'S 27h YEAR *****
• ↓ ***** 1999 - 2026 *****
• ↓ THE VINTAGE HOFNER SITE IS SPLIT INTO SIX SECTIONS:-
• ↓ Click HERE to Enter THE HOFNER GUITARS SECTION
• ↓ Click HERE to Enter THE SELMER AMPLIFIER SECTION
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"I have been playing, collecting, and generally been involved with Hofner guitars for over 60 years, and in that time have acquired a great affection for them. I don't profess however to be an expert on all Hofners, particularly as it is the guitars distributed in the U.K. by Selmer of London during the 1950s and 60s that appeal to me most. Those are the ones which belonging to Hofner's "Golden Years", i.e. the time before American guitars became easily available in Britain and when there was a very limited choice of reasonable quality guitars that were available to the many up and coming guitarists in the country. Believe it or not, these were the guitars that were the foundations of the British "Beat Boom" (awful expression) that swept across the World from the mid 60's onwards. With the coming of the Fenders, Gibsons, Gretsch, etc, sales of Hofner in Britain declined. O.K., they tried to keep up with such models as the Galaxie, but really they never had a chance. It's nice to know though that they are still producing high quality instruments in Germany and in the new factory in China, which are now reappearing in the UK as well as the United States. The future is looking good again for Hofner!"

"As well as describe some of the Hofner guitars from their great heyday period in Britain, I have attempted to provide details of some of the past (and some still current!) users of Hofners. This list will, I hope, convince even the most skeptical of Hofner's importance in the development of British rock music."

"The current range of guitars made by the Hofner Company is impressive, and is very much in the old traditions of style and quality. With the ongoing assistance from Nick Wass of the re-formatted Hofner company, I have attempted to present details of the new models on this website. For fully up-to-date information though, please visit The Official Hofner Website."

"The Selmer amps section seemed to have been very successful, so Tim and myself built upon this by providing an information resource on Charlie Watkins' range of guitar amplifiers from the 1950's through to the 1980's."

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A site for vintage guitar buffs, with plenty of photos of old Hofner guitars from the 50's and 60's, together with sections on Selmer, Watkins/WEM, Bird, Fenton-Weill, Grampion, Dallas, and Elpico Amps.

***** THIS IS THE VINTAGE HOFNER WEBSITE'S 27h YEAR *****

***** 1999 - 2026 *****

THE VINTAGE HOFNER SITE IS SPLIT INTO SIX SECTIONS:-

Click HERE to Enter THE HOFNER GUITARS SECTION

Click HERE to Enter THE SELMER AMPLIFIER SECTION