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Höfner HM83

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Classical Guitar

  • Size: 4/4
  • Meister Series
  • Top: Solid AAA select spruce
  • Bottom and sides: Solid flamed maple
  • Neck: Alder
  • Fretboard: Walnut
  • 19 Frets
  • Scale: 650 mm
  • Nut width: 52 mm
  • Bone nut
  • Bridge: Moor oak
  • Finish (bottom and sides): Natural, high-gloss
  • Top: Waxed
  • Made in Germany
Available since July 2000
Item number 142496
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Cutaway No
Top Spruce
Back and Sides Maple
Pickups No
Fretboard Walnut
Nut width in mm 52,00 mm
Scale 650 mm
Colour Natural
Case No
Incl. Gigbag No
4.689 AED 1.175,63 €
Plus 277 AED shipping
The price in AED is a guideline price only
Since we ship from Germany, additional costs through taxes and customs may be incurred
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Visually and Tonally Exciting
IanHart 05.02.2021
TL;DR With the Höfner HM83, you’re getting an unusual guitar that I personally find to be delightful both visually and tonally. The guitar should come with a case though.

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The overall look of the guitar is very different than most other classical guitars. The photos online can’t and don't really represent the “matte” finish very well, especially in comparison with the standard high gloss of most classical and acoustic guitars. The matte finish is - as far as I can tell - an oil finish, and when you hold the guitar, the sense that you’re holding an object made of assembled wood pieces is very strong. The high gloss of other guitars, to my mind, serves to obfuscate the essential nature of the instrument. With the HM83, it feels like wood grain in your hands, and there’s an immediacy to the instrument that’s exciting. The spruce, maple, and rosewood pieces give the instrument a honeyed tan aesthetic. It even has a light and pleasant new guitar smell.

Hearing the first tones from the guitar felt electrifying. I’d been testing a Cordoba C9 at the time, and I found that to be pleasant but not very thrilling. The trebles were especially bland, and the sustain not very good. In contrast, the Höfner HM83 felt like an explosion of sound right out of the box. If you’re used to a darker/oscuro tone, it might even feel controversial. It can be driven to quite loud volumes, and there’s a definite bias towards satisfying mid-range tones (I assume that’s the maple back and sides influence).

That said, the separation between notes is crystal clear, the bass tones are very satisfying (especially with Höfner Premium strings), and the trebles can - especially as you work up the fret board - really bloom into rich singing tones.

For those who care, the tap tone and the open air tone are around G#.

Other things:

* The intonation, neck relief, and action are good.
* The Höfner strings that were on the guitar by default sounded great but were absolutely unforgiving when fretting on the wound strings if you didn’t get right up to the fret. I changed those to D’Addario Pro Arte Carbon HT strings, and that improved (though I don’t like the sound as much). I plan on trying the Höfner strings again though.
* The machines are shiny, solid, and serve their purpose very well.

My one disappointing is that the guitar doesn’t come with a case. For a guitar that costs over €1000 to be shipping in various layers of cardboard boxes is not a hypothetical risk: the first copy of the guitar I received had a shattered headstock and cracked neck due to negligence by the shipping company. Thomann’s excellent customer service provided a replacement quickly, but it was such a waste of a good instrument. The Cordoba C9 I tested came in a case, and this should as well.

With all that said, when I’m playing the guitar I’m happy. When I’m not playing the guitar, I want to be playing the guitar.
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Great guitar!
GuitarNoob123 02.04.2021
The guitar sounds amazing and I am very pleased with it.
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Tolle Optik, hervorragender Klang und gute Bespielbarkeit
johnomally 24.10.2009
Ich hab mir die Höfner HM 83 vor zwei Wochen abgeholt und ich muss sagen, dass ich von Tag zu Tag mehr begeistert bin. Zunächst zum optischen - die HM 83 ist hier wirklich toll. Die hellen Tonhölzer Aningere (ist dem Ahorn recht ähnlich) und die fein gemaserte Fichtendecke sind toll abgestimmt. Die Fichtendecke weißt kaum Unregelmäßigkeiten auf.

Die Gitarre ist sehr gut verarbeitet, nur an der Seite des Griffbrettes sieht man dort wo die Bünde eingeschlagen wurden leichte Macken die aber überlackiert wurden. Das war sowohl bei meiner orginalverpackten Gitarre als auch beim Ausstellungsmodel so.

In der Bespielbarkeit ist die HM83 für mich ideal. Das Spielen geht einfach leicht von der Hand. Eine Tatsache die das vielleicht ausmacht ist das leicht asymetrisch geformte Halsprofil (sieht man am besten am Halsfuss). Das steht nicht auf der Website oder dem Katalog, wurde aber mal in einem Test erwähnt und ist tatsächlich gut zu merken.

Das Beste ist allerdings der Klang (und ich denke dass sich die Fichtendecke noch weiterentwickelt). Sehr klarer Diskant und kraftvoll, warmer Bass geben der HM83 einen vollen runden Sound der in der Preisklasse seines gleichen sucht (Ich hab vor dem Kauf so einige Gitarren angespielt die viel teurer waren und da kann die HM83 echt gut mithalten).

Alles in allem bin ich echt zufrieden und werd noch viel spaß haben. Wer die HM83 mal in "Action" sehen will, kann das auf youtube in einem meiner videos sehen. Einfach "TheLarghetto" und "Tarrega Lagrima" eingeben. Viel Spaß
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Fausse sur la corde de sol à l'octave
Paultrebor 16.11.2021
quel dommage qu'elle soit fausse à la 12eme sur la SOL !
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