Hondo
163 posts
Aug 20, 2011
7:44 AM
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Anyone ever heard of these? I can't find anything on them and there is one for sale here cheap. Is it even a tube amp?
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Greg Heumann
1230 posts
Aug 20, 2011
8:04 AM
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Every piece of electronic gear from Hohner I've ever tried has been bottom of the barrel crap. I don't know this amp, but when we're talking harmonicas, the name Hohner comes to mind. When we're talking amps....... not so much.
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/Greg
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Hondo
164 posts
Aug 20, 2011
8:12 AM
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thanks Greg!
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KingBiscuit
92 posts
Aug 20, 2011
8:49 AM
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Don't beat around the bush Greg....tell us how you really feel. LOL
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barbequebob
1714 posts
Aug 20, 2011
9:09 AM
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Hohner is the world's largest manufactuere of musical instruments in the world and not just harmonicas. Thye've been making keyboards, accordions, melodicas, guitars, and amps for years, tho the guitars and amps have been mainly sold in Europe and their guitars are decent for short money. Their most well known keyboard instrument is the clavinet, made famous when chormatic harp master Stevie Wonder was using it on two of his 70's hits Superstion and Higher Ground.
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LSC
69 posts
Aug 20, 2011
9:48 AM
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Just because they're big don't make them good, as Mae West might have said.
Other than their harmonicas there isn't much I've seen from Hohner that I have liked. A few years ago a friend wanted a short scale bass and showed up with a reissue violin "Beatle" bass. He said, Look what I bought!" To which I replied, "Why?" He dumped it two months later at a significant loss and picked up a vintage Danelectro.
Hohner's accordians are pretty well respected but nothing that I know of in the electronic area is rated.
As far as the clavinet, pretty sure Stevie Wonder dumped his about 40 years ago.
And yes, I'm biased against Hohner as a company. Their reaction to my complaint regarding reeds breaking off and lodging in my throat, twice, was dismissive at best. They admitted in writing to selling defective product but offered to do nothing about it and ignored my further requests to at least replace the instruments.
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LSC
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hvyj
1687 posts
Aug 20, 2011
12:51 PM
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I'm no Hohner fan by any means, but a funk bass player I know plays a 6 string Hohner bass guitar which is a very nice instrument. Hohner also makes Sonor drums which some drummers seem to think are pretty nice.
For the most part, I think Hohner harmonicas are not that good and I happen to think the 1896 Marine Band is close to being the crappiest harmonica on the planet. That this model is so popular makes think of P.T. Barnum.
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jbone
619 posts
Aug 20, 2011
10:03 PM
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never heard of a hohner 2x10 but peavey made a delta blues 210 some years ago. pretty decent as a medium room harp amp with a tube swap. mine had either tremolo or reverb, can't recall which, plus plenty of other knobs to tweak. i used either a cm or crystal powered mic with it and both sounded very good.
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bluzmn
45 posts
Aug 21, 2011
2:06 AM
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I checked youtube; at the 2008 NAMM show Hohner introduced some tube guitar amps branded Laney. The guy showed a 4x10 model and mentioned a 2x12 model and a "studio-size" model for which I didn't catch the speaker configuration. You might want to check it out; the guy talks a lot of shit, but he doesn't actually play one.
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swampboy
46 posts
Aug 22, 2011
7:07 AM
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I think you will find the Beatle bass is made by Hofner, not Hohner!
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HawkeyeKane
18 posts
Aug 22, 2011
7:22 AM
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The only amp I've seen by Hohner is the Hoodoo Box. I was considering getting one for a bit, but I heard so many mixed reviews on it, I backed off.
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hvyj
1698 posts
Aug 22, 2011
7:36 AM
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@swampboy: I'm not talking about the 4 string hollow body Hofner "violin" bass guitar that Paul McCartney plays.
The bass i am talking about is a solid body 6 string bass guitar that is made by Hohner. The funk bass player i know that plays one is a virtuoso player and he loves it. I don't play bass but his Hohner 6 string sounds terrific. I'm not sure Hohner still makes that particular model, though.
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MrVerylongusername
1879 posts
Aug 22, 2011
7:42 AM
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@bluzmn
Laney is an independent UK amp manufacturer. They've been around since the late 60s. They had a distribution only deal with Hohner for a few years, but have since parted ways.
I have never played a valve laney, but my very first amp was a solid state Laney keyboard mixer amp - it took a fair amount of abuse and still works well.
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HawkeyeKane
20 posts
Aug 22, 2011
7:57 AM
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@longusername
One little bit of cool trivia on Laney. Mark Knopfler was trying to emulate Billy Gibbons' sound, and asked him how he did it. Gibbons wouldn't tell him. When Knopfler was in the studio recording Money for Nothing, he got the trademark guitar sound by accident. He used a '59 Les Paul, a Laney amp, and two misplaced recording mics, which produced the sound we all know on the intro to the song. Billy Gibbons later said Knopfler did a good job "considering I never told him a damn thing."
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I entertain
By bringing a tone to your brain
Just like a west bound train
You wanna know my name?
Well, it's Hawkeye Kane
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MagicPauley57
95 posts
Aug 22, 2011
6:14 PM
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i owned a laney vc30 , which i sold to a friwnd who was moving to germany and needed a decent valve amp to use at home and gigs here and there , i had it for about 10 yrs , and was one of the most reliable and great sounding british amps i've owned , it was when i bought my two fender combos i felt i could part with it , one of the most underated amps that are well worth checking out , thier lionheart series look rally nice as well , i even used it for harp duties and coped very well
i haven't seen or tried the hoodooo box and no-one stocks it in kent
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