They founded “Jetser” and probably could have had some instruments produced in the Netherlands: source Dick Boak Martin company) Jester, Lido, Lion (invented for the Frankfurter Messe) Lucky Joe (by Rosetti) Lucky Squire, Lucky star, Manhattan, Marizza, Miller, Orpheum, Roderich Paesold, Royal, Royalist, Sheerline 7, Solid 7, Stradivarius, Tonemaster, Top special, Vander and Wilson.

There are many sub-brands: Alberti and Alex among others.įurther we can mention: Caledonie, Combo, Dixieland, Frima, Hi-spot by Rosetti, Jetser (Bob Johnson, vice president of the Martin company, was responsible regarding the contacts with Egmond when he was still working for Martin) was a collaboration between Johnson and guitarist John Pierce and some other workmen from the Martin company. Paul Mc Cartney & George harrisson where playing with them. im looking for gitars with the name EGMOND their where build in the Netherlands from 1935 untill 1970. (A “ Rosetti” branded one guitar given to him from his parents)Īn English import company named their guitars “Rosetti”. Posted by Ben van Egmond on Tue, 03/20/01 - 15:25:14. George Harrison started on an Egmond guitar and even Brian May started on one. In the Netherlands it is possible to buy a book written by Cees Bakker about the Dutch Egmond factories and all the sub brands. You can only give a rough dating by looking in their catalogues and by the types of parts they used in their different years. “Unfortunately you cannot date Egmond guitars by the numbers. The lever knobs are still on stock.Egmond was founded by Ulke Egmond, originally in Eindhoven, later in Beste, Netherlands. 1932 – 1983 The two rotary switches with lever knobs (pickup selector and tone selector) were used on many old German guitars, not only Hoyers but also Framus, Hopf, and some others. Such as the ones with six screws in the middle and pole pieces near the edge under three strings each, as well as the controls. They don't have a bobbin, the wires are wound in an open ring.Īlso most of the other pickups on old Hoyers were made by Schaller, Repaired some of these pickups which were dead. Parallelogram shaped plastic cover was custom made for Hoyer. Inside they are the same as the other Schaller pickups made in these times, only the The old employees (which are all dead now) told me a lot about the history.Ī comment to the parallelogram pickups used on Hoyer guitars in the early sixties: These were made by Schaller. During my research in the eighties I visited the Hoyer company in Erlangen/ Germany several times.

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