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Themes of the month:

October 

2004: 

Wie die Gitarre elektrisch wurde Teil II (How the guitar turned electric, part II, German)

September 

2004: 

Wie die Gitarre elektrisch wurde Teil I (How the guitar turned electric, part I, German)

August 

2004: 

Linda McCartney: Pictures and Life

July 

2004: 

Opening of STROMGITARREN on July 30, 2004

     

March 

2004: 

A Telegram and a Telecaster

February 

2004: 

Start of STROMgitarren

January 

2004: 

The invisible sound of air guitar

December 

2003: 

Rock 'n' Roll Riots: Advent Season in Mannheim 1956

November 

2003: 

Tube Power - A Short History of Guitar Amplification

October 

2003: 

Mannheim - The Cradle of "That Great Gretsch Sound"


Documents of guitar history:

Hoyer guitars  

From the "Herr im Frack" (Gentleman with tailcoat)
to the "Elektrischen Hawaia-Gitarre" (electrical Hawaiian guitar)

"Hoyer guitars - masterpieces of German "Zupfinstrumentebau" (industry of stringed instruments)

Probably the first post-war brochure of a German guitar company (1948).


 
construction manual
 

How to build a guitar?

"Hausmusik mit Elektronik" by Rudolf Wollmann

Do-it-yourself construction manual from 1968.

brochure of the company Höfner
 

Electric guitars out of a brochure of the company Höfner

Mid sixties

brochure of the company Framus
 

Electric guitars out of a brochure of the company Framus

Mid sixties

 
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