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BTW, did you have an opinion on the Eagle double neck discussed in this post:
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Mon Jun 01, 2009 3:22 pm
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Thanks for the confirmation about Hohners being sourced from Mordaira/Morris. I've sent Morris USA an email asking for any info - who knows if I'll hear back?
I got the info on the connection regarding Terada building guitars for Morris and Vesta from this site:
http://www.music-trade.co.jp/otherhistory2.html
which seems to have a lot of information about connections between many Japanese brands. From what I've found on a number of sites, it looks like many of the brands used different factories for their acoustics and their electrics, confusing things even more...!
Joanna
Statistics: Posted by joannajetson — Sun May 31, 2009 12:36 pm
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The only connection between Morris & Terada I've read about appears in the list of Japanese brands & manufacturers which is stickied at the top of this board - much of which I can't help feeling is based on guesswork!
However I've recently seen a Morris acoustic which named Iida Gakki as manufacturer on the inside label - this suggests that either Moridaira outsourced some production, or perhaps even that they did not have their own production facility. Again the lack of information & records from the era leaves us with little more than educated guesses!
Jon.
Statistics: Posted by Bassassin — Sun May 31, 2009 9:43 am
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Joanna
Statistics: Posted by joannajetson — Sat May 30, 2009 5:30 pm
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A good number of the Hohner models from that period were also sold under the Morris brand, often with slight differences in the trimmings.
Here's a partly scan of the Morris catalog from that same period:
Obviously a different headstock shape, different bridge & tailpiece and different placement of the knobs but definitely the same manufacturer.
Since your guitar has a spruce top it looks like it is a mix of the two pictured Morris models.
Hope this is of some help!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
Statistics: Posted by hansmoust — Sat May 30, 2009 3:15 pm
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Thanks very much for looking to see if you have other Hohner catalogs. If I'm reading the date code correctly, mine is a 1982.
I may be wrong about the Terada connection due to my faulty aging memory - I had been thinking of an old Polytone jazzbox I had decades ago and was pretty certain that the body was the same as my Hohner's, and I had found refernces to the Polytones being built by Terada. However, looking at the Polytone catalogs on vintaxe, I see they're not quite the same after all.
Now, my Hohner does have the same body as the Vesta Graham shown on the site - which would be Vestax/Shino (one of the several builders of the D'Angelico knock-offs). Then the questions become: 1) did Vestax/Shino have their own factory back in the late '70s - early '80s, and if not, what factory did they use, and 2) does the identical body necessarily mean they were built in the same place, or would one factory have "borrowed" the design? I mean, those f-holes are really pretty weird, so it's hard for me to picture another factory voluntarily doing a knock-off!
Another confusion is that except for the f-holes, the top of the Hohner body matches the Ibanez GB, and it's my understanding that the Ibanez hollow-bodies of that era were made by Terada...
Oh,and naturally, most of the label inside the guitar is missing, and although there are 2 numerical stamps inside (I'm guessing one is a serial no. and one is a date code), there's no alphabetical prefix on either one, as there is on the Ibanez models.
In other words - AARGHH!
Statistics: Posted by joannajetson — Mon May 25, 2009 11:38 pm
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Sorry you didn't find your Hohner Jazzbox in the catalogs. I probably have more Hohner catalogs in my unsorted bins. I'll do some sorting next week and see if I can find a catalog with your guitar pictured.
Where did you read about the Hohner - Terada connection? I haven't turned up anything on a search.
Statistics: Posted by VintAxe — Mon May 25, 2009 5:41 pm
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http://www.robwesley.com/guitars/Hohner ... nburst.jpg
(Sorry, I'm not having any luck getting the complete hyperlink to work, so you'll have to cut-and-paste the address.)
Mine is exactly like his. The body is the same shape as the Ibanez GB and just a touch smaller - 14-1/2 wide, 2-3/4 deep, 24-3/4 scale. Solid curly maple back and sides, spruce top. The top is also exactly like the Vesta Graham on the Vintaxe site, right down to the wierd over-the-top f-holes.
The only thing Hohner was able to confirm was the model number and that it was made in Japan. From what I've been able to dig up on the Japanese Hohners, it probably came from the Terada factory.
I've looked at the Hohner catalogs on Vintaxe, but unfortunately, it falls between the years that are online.
So, if anyone has any additional info, catalog pages, etc., I'd love to find out more about it. It's quite a nice guitar, especially since I installed a Shadow Zoller pickup at the neck.
Thanks, all -
Joanna
Statistics: Posted by joannajetson — Tue May 19, 2009 10:45 pm
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