Hoyer Bianka®
Hoyer was one of Germany's
major guitar manufacturers, producing a variety
of hollow and solidbodied instruments.
Because of the large
number of American troops stationed near West
Germany during the 1950's and 1960's, guitar based
rock became very popular there.
Beginning in 1960,
many English bands like the Beatles, Van Morisson's
Them, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Swinging
Bluejeans, began to play in the clubs of Hamburg.
Like their counterpart
in Britain and the States, many German teens wanted
to play the guitar, but they could not afford
guitars like the imported Fenders, Gibsons and
Gretsches played by their heroes.
To meet this demand, a German
guitar industry began to develop, and later found
a secondary market among British teens as well.
The soundholes of
the Hoyer Bianka are lightning-shaped, and sports
an unusual curved pickguard and grooved metal
tailpiece.
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