Re: Hohner/Steiny Copy question...

[neato@pipeline.com]

have had a hohner g2 guitar for years...twin humbucker...emg- select-
pickups..."real" emg pick-ups are low impedence and require active
circuitry..the select line are "regular" high impedence pickups like on
most guitars..they dont have personality like many custom pickups but they
do have a good clean output and are very quiet ie hum free...the guitar is
made of wood as opposed to graphite(which i actually prefer)...the tremelo
is what is licensed from steinberger and it is their most basic..it is not
a trans-trem!..unfortunately this is its weakest link...at first (after
various tweaks for a good setup) it performed admirably..the bar allowed
holdworth-esque legato and i was able to tune the guitar by barring a chord
and shaking the vibrato arm..not bad...eventually though the machined parts
started to wear and things started to go wrong..when i posted about where i
could get replacement parts, i was told by a number of people that the
tremelo had a history of problems(the posts holding the unit to the body
would strip)...in addition the nut adjusting tension has also stripped...i
could not get a current address for  hohner so i contacted steinberger via
new owner -gibson..(gibson released a spirit line which is identical to the
hohner)..i was told via e-mail that steinberger had nothing to do with
hohner..when i pressed the issue that the hohners were identical to the
gibson spirit line and parts should be interchangeable they wrote that i
should contact them with parts info..which admittedly i havent done...last
i heard steinberger  via gibson was no more...
-so the moral of the story...great knock around guitar capable of some real
flexibility but beware those machined parts cause they will go and parts
will be hard to replace
cheers
if anyone knows different, please let me know

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                                                      neato@pipeline.com