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It was also only available in brunette finish (no blonde) at a price of 14 gns.īy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price).
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The Congress model has an easy action and the tone is very responsive. The body has white purfled edge, rich brown colour with sunburst shading and is hand-rubbed to a high lustre finish. Floating finger plate in rich tortoiseshell grained celluloid. Steel screw cog, brass single plate machine heads. Rosewood fingerboard with inlaid mother of pearl position dots and easy action brass frets.
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Fitted with exclusive Hofner "Slendanek" with adjustable internal truss rod. It did, however, come with some of the new features appearing on all Hofner guitars from 1960: the thin "Slendernek" and adjustable truss rod.įull arched top and back with new style internal bars for greater resonance. the Committee, President and Senator) it had no electric equivalent there was no Congress with pickups fitted.
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In contrast to most of the other Hofner archtops (i.e. The Congress was one of Selmer's best-selling guitars in the UK from 1958 and throughout the 1960s. Details of the Hofner Congress acoustic guitar. Selmer 1960 Hofner and Futurama catalogue, page 21.
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