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Hammertone
It's a gorgeous Musima Record, their top-of-the-line offering.
Made in Markneukirchen, East Germany.
Based on the tuners and pickups, this looks like the second-to-last version of the guitar, probably late-1960s/early-1970s. The model was discontinued in 1978.
Musima introduced the Record in 1954, based on the Roger Super archtop design, which had been graciously donated to the Workers' Paradise by Wenzel Rossmeisel in 1951, along with his shop, jigs, tooling, wood, and partially/fully completed guitars. An honoured guest of the Stasi in Waldheim prison from 1951 to 1954, Wenzel focused on perfecting his skills as a cabinet maker, before leaving East Germany in 1954 and re-starting the Roger company in 1955, in Mittenwald, West Germany.
This guitar looks dead stock, and is missing only its pickguard.
-probably has a lovely wide neck.
-carved spruce top, carved maple or anigree back;
-ebony fretboard;
-Simeto pickups;
-@17+ inches wide, thinline;
-tons of binding and purfling.
Great guitars! The main issue with them, easily remedied, is less-than-stellar fretwork.
The top is built with the spruce very thick under the area of the strings, obviating the need for added struts/tone-bars. It's a neat design, used by only a few makers over the years, and quite suitable for a thinline instrument designed specifically to be played as an electric guitar.
These guitars typically sell for under $1,000 and do come up for sale regularly in Europe, where buyers are simply too ignorant to appreciate them. They are probably the best value in the world for fully-carved archtop electric guitars.
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