Höfner guitars in the 1950s

Through the 1950s, Karl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG controlled the Höfner name, and 1 plant built it: Hofner Bubenreuth.^{[1, 2]}

1 era touch the 1950s across 1 line. The version changed in 1950. A guitar from either side of those years can be a different Höfner.

Year by year

Eras in the 1950s

Other brands in the 1950s

• Epiphone in the 1950s
• Fender in the 1950s
• Gibson in the 1950s
• Gretsch in the 1950s
• Guild in the 1950s
• Harmony in the 1950s
• Ibanez in the 1950s
• Martin in the 1950s
• Maton in the 1950s
• Rickenbacker in the 1950s

Höfner, year by year

Sources

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   Hofner: A Short Historygraded primary

   • He established his works at Schönbach then the European centre of stringed instrument making. [...] On 1st January 1994 Höfner was sold to Boosey & Hawkes, a major british music companyHöfner in the 1950s: owners and plants
   • by Christmas 1950 the new Hofner factory was up and running. [...] the main step taken was to close the factory at Bubenreuth and move all production to the newer factory at Hagenau, which was enlarged and modernized in 1997.Höfner in the 1950s: owners and plants
2. 2
   Hofnergraded community

   • The new Höfner factory opened in 1950, and expanded three times between 1953 and 1960. [...] In 1997, the company moved from Bubenreuth to Hagenau.Höfner in the 1950s: owners and plants

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