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Höfner is again making a large bodied fully hollow bass - 500/18
Dave W:
The Höfner 500/1 didn't suffer the image problem here as it did in Germany. By contrast, when I was in high school, no one I knew wanted to be seen with a Silvertone/Danelectro.
A close friend in high school bought a well-used Austin Healey 3000 and dropped a Chevy 283 in it.
westen44:
If you played a Silvertone, that was as low as you could go. It was considered a beginner's instrument that people got because they couldn't afford anything better. You might even have been better off with an off brand no one had heard of. But if you had one and kept it, you would be able to make some money on a Silvertone today.
ilan:
And Swedes can't understand why anyone would want to play Hagstroms, they are considered kindling there.
Chris P.:
While we Dutch some more weed and ask ourselves why nobody playes Egmond.
Dave W:
--- Quote from: westen44 on November 28, 2017, 07:14:11 AM ---If you played a Silvertone, that was as low as you could go. It was considered a beginner's instrument that people got because they couldn't afford anything better. You might even have been better off with an off brand no one had heard of. But if you had one and kept it, you would be able to make some money on a Silvertone today.
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If I had had to play a Silvertone back then, I'd have had to put a bag over my head, and another one over the headstock.
They bring ridiculous money today, relative to their original cost.
--- Quote from: Chris P. on November 28, 2017, 10:26:28 AM ---While we Dutch some more weed and ask ourselves why nobody playes Egmond.
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Doesn't Ed Friedland still have his Egmond? I remember a thread here from about 4 years ago where someone was asking $2500 for one on eBay.
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