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| Hohner SE 35
I recieved this guitar a a birthday present in my teens. I no longer have it as it died. It was second hand when I got it and I played it everday for about 12 years including gigging drunken jams - drunken gigs- so it took some serious abuse over the years!!
It was a semi acoustic guitar in the style of a Gibson ES 335- in White with cream binding and gold hardware. The neck was the fattest of any guitar I have ever played- but whilst it was fat it was comfortable. It looked the dogs- the style of a 335 with the class of a Gretsch White Falcon.
I loved Oasis at the time I had this guitar and that is what I mainly used it for. Jamming loud in my room to Oasis and other tracks. Its acoustic tine was nice too - after hours strumming was great- no fret buzz at all!!
Ihave an old recording of me playing the Oasis track Stand By Me with this guitar and it sounds bang on. Just the guitar plugged into a Marshall on full tilt and the lead line of Stand by Me was perfect. It pulled off all the Oasis tunes.
An excellent guitar for vintage sounds too. I taught myself to play guitar with an old Beatles book so I used to play the Beatles all the time! Dependant on amp setting and pick up selection there are alot of tones to be had with a SE 35.
The problems with this guitar started as it aged and when I started to use it gigging. It was second hand when I got hold of it so I don't know the age of the guitar. At high "gig" volumes the pots where noisy - the feedback was not that much of an issue even for a hollowbidy- The pots could be cleaned etc but it was failing to hold its tuning and also had developed a fret buzz.
I took the guitar to a local repairer and he took a look- the guitar pots and electrics were sorted with a clean and squitr of WD40- The tuning and fret buzz was a different matter. He advised that the neck was warped and the truss rod was a little more than useless in it- he advised it was just age as he thought the guitar was about 15 years old and had had some storage issues.
The guitar had to go I was sad but repair was more than the guitar was worth even for sentimental reasons. The guitar I believe was £75 and I managed to swap it for a guitar worth much more. It was truly an excellent guitar and it had come naturally to the end of its days- It has probably been repaoered now and is back on the circuit playing with another band!
If anyone has any pictures of a Hohner SE 35 please do email them to me- especially a white one- I sadly have no pictues of my old guitar!
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