As MusicRadar prepares its assault on 2011's Frankfurt Musikmesse trade show next month, the first few gear releases are trickling through. Hofner, the German guitar brand most famed for its Violin ...
Originally produced as the 500/3 in the late fifties, it took Hofner's London-based distributor, Selmer's of Charing Cross Road, to introduce model names and thus baptise this f-holed beauty. When the ...
EXCLUSIVE: As Hofner launches a global hunt for Sir Paul McCartney's violin bass he played during the early days of the Beatles, a Fab Four expert reveals the importance of the £30 guitar and why ...