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 will ban you for it now.
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An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.
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Wow, I didn’t know there are two brands with so close names. Though, I checked: I meant Hohner: https://hohner.de/
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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.
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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!
Warwick and Sandberg have a few made in Germany bass guitar lines that are pretty sick. Also Duesenberg - sooo beautiful
They’re Canadian, but reasonble quality…
Lowden Guitars, high quality acoustics, made in Northern Ireland. https://lowdenguitars.com/
Australia is basically honorary Europe.
Heck, all of CANZUK is honorary Europe.
My electric guitar is a Swedish Hagström Ultra Swede, I always wanted to get a genuine Gibson Les Paul but never could afford one. So I ended up with the much cheaper Ultra Swede, have been playing with it for two years and I’m more than happy with it.
I also have two Finnish Landola acoustic guitars from the late 60’s - early 70’s, a 12-string “Colorado” model and a 6-string “Buffalo”. Both sound excellent, especially after I made new bone nuts and saddles to replace the original plastic ones.
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.
Skervesen guitars are amazing build quality
Framus is awesome. Good thing that my favorite Canadian is also a framus endorsed artist!
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
