Just as many British guitarists of the sixties were shocked to discover that the Gibson Les Paul was solid, due to their familiarity with Hofner’s hollowbody Club range, so they were equally bemused to fi nd the ES-335 wasn’t completely fi lled with air. The original Hofner Verithin was a semiacoustic in the true meaning of the word, in that it was slender-bodied and hollow. The latest Verythins – both the German-made top-end models and this Contemporary (CT) version – have an ES-335-style solid centre section designed to curb the hollowbody howl for which they lost popularity in the high-volume late sixties.

 

Author   Neville Martin   Issue   Guitarist 04/2006   number of pages   1