After all this years I have to find out that it actually is an intrument.
Mayones certainly makes my sandwich sing.
I love this community because I’m learning a lot about where stuff is from. Case in point, I was going to suggest Ibanez and found out it’s Japanese lol
I’ve played an Ibanez SR 300 bass on stage for years. I tried many others but nothing feels or sounds as good to me.
Well, at least it’s not from murica
This is exactly what we should do for now - post every single post both here on Lemmy and on Reddit and we should constantly remind people that they have to switch to Lemmy!
The Reddit mods seems to not like Lemmy a lot: https://lemm.ee/post/57901024?scrollToComments=true
They enjoy seeing their work get fucked over. That sounds like a cuck to me.
What is reddit?
They will ban you for it now.
Strandberg
I’ve always wanted one of their 7 or 8 strings with the fanned frets but that price tag is steep
I’ve played one once in a shop and it was amazing. If I can ever afford to drop that much money on an instrument I will be going right to them
An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
Solar.
Yes, they also have “Made in Europe”
Hagström is great, especially the Super Swede is on my favourite list.
Playing a ultra swede for years, no complaints :)
Excellent guitars. Made in china, but still very good.
Speaking of excellent chinese guitars; Eastman acoustics are incredibly good.
Apparently they have brought back some of their production to sweden as of 2020 but don’t ask me which models, because i don’t know. I know production moved to china 2006 after not having any at all since the 80ies and they probably still make a lot of their new guitars there. Ive only played on a 70-80ies something superswede.
I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.
Höfner? Source: my violin bass
Wow, I didn’t know there are two brands with so close names. Though, I checked: I meant Hohner: https://hohner.de/
Same! I thought they were the same company, I’m certain that I learned guitar on a Hohner acoustic.
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I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.
Warwick and Sandberg have a few made in Germany bass guitar lines that are pretty sick. Also Duesenberg - sooo beautiful
What EU brand would I be looking for if I wanted to buy a decent beginner friendly hollowbody?
Honestly I can warmly recommend the Thomann house brand, Harley Benton. The dirt cheap, entry level ones are on par with beginner models from known bands, and if you splurge a little more and get one of their nice ones, you’ll have a really fine instrument for the price of the beginner model in the known brands.
They’re German and the reason it’s so cheap is they have 0 layers in the pipeline, they “manufacture” and sell directly. Most of their own brands punch well above their weight, but you should still look at the reviews etc for your specific item of choice.
EU brand, manufactured in Asia though.
Yeah for sure, and some of it is just curated OEM stuff they slap their logo on, but still the point stands. If you want manufactured in EU prices aren’t gonna be the same.
I can recommend this store/brand too. I’ve had a few instruments and other stuff shipped to england over the years and I’ve always had a great experience (and great prices).
Hagström viking. Hagström alvar.
But they are only an EU-brand, not actually made in EU.
Thomann’s house brand Harley Benton has some good guitars. Not sure about hollowbody guitars, but I have a semihollow guitar from HB that I play quite a lot and has good build quality.
Oh wow I haven’t thought about Thomann and Harley Bentons in years!
They’re Canadian, but reasonble quality…
Manson guitars are from the UK.
Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they’re not European, but at least they’re not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.
those guitars are also much higher quality than Gibson or fender
I haven’t kept up with guitars in the past 20 years, but didn’t fender and gipson fall off super hard quality wise?
it’s not a production or design issue (and there are many)
it’s just that for some reason the quality control has sunk to levels that have become unacceptable
I think Gibson has legitimately sunk in quality and is a shell of its former self, I’m not convinced Fender has. It is my understanding that QC slipped a bit during the pandemic and some instruments in rough shape left the factory, but I’ve seen reports of them honoring their warranty and replacing them with perfect instruments. I personally don’t need another Fender, my '96 fat strat is still fit for purpose.
