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[โ€“] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 15 points 2 months ago

An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars

[โ€“] feiras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Warwick and Sandberg have a few made in Germany bass guitar lines that are pretty sick. Also Duesenberg - sooo beautiful

[โ€“] Lanske@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Daemoness, Blackat, Mayones, RAN

[โ€“] sober_monk@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago

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.

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[โ€“] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Skervesen guitars are amazing build quality

[โ€“] alexcleac@szmer.info 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.

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[โ€“] teslasaur@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Solar.

Yes, they also have "Made in Europe"

[โ€“] farcaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I wonder which one of these I can buy, locally, here in the US. I never looked specifically at non-US brands until now.

[โ€“] john_lemmy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What EU brand would I be looking for if I wanted to buy a decent beginner friendly hollowbody?

[โ€“] leun089@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

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[โ€“] vesi@lemm.ee 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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!

[โ€“] nodiratime@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

What is reddit?

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always wanted one of their 7 or 8 strings with the fanned frets but that price tag is steep

[โ€“] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago

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

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