Höfner files for insolvency

[kodiakblair]

2 hours ago, Hellzero said:

the rest is history.

Aye, he had £30 to spend but a Fender cost £100 so he bought the Höfner.

 

If he'd had a bigger budget he'd have bought a Fender, Höfner would never have got the Beatles association lifeline and went bust decades ago 👍

[Stub Mandrel]

11 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Höfner (correct spelling

 

This is interesting.  Apparently in the early years those exported to the uk had the spelling 'Hofner' to downplay their German origin at a time when that was disadvantageous in the UK.

 

In English the nearest equivalent of ö is œ. I posted a link to the German pronunciation above, closer to 'herfner' than 'hoffner' although the latter is almost universal in the UK.

 

Œ is often pronounced as an 'e' in the UK (compare 'Phœbe'), I suspect Hugh Heffner's original family was closer to 'Höfner'.

[Hellzero]

10 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

In English the nearest equivalent of ö is œ.

It's not the nearest equivalent, it's the other way to write it, just like in German, where any vowel with an umlaut (which is a totally German word) can be written this way. 😉