Hohner Professional The Prinz T style guitar
Circa 1990
Near Mint & All original
Body and neck: 3 piece body from California Maple with flamed maple top and back, central join bind (mahogany) and imitation mahogany body binding.
Neck: Bolt on one-piece Canadian hard rock maple with 21 silver/nickel frets.
Features: Chrome hardware, graphite nut, standard ST-bridge, deluxe machine heads.
Pickups and wiring: Two single coils HP GS-1 with raised pillars and passive wiring. 3 way switch; volume/tone knobs.
Sound: That guitar has bright top, good sustain and sounds "bone-dry" with good attack.
The Story: This is Prince's favorite guitar! He used a similar Model from 1978 on. He always favored the sound of the guitar that he once described as "raggedy". All his early albums from "For You" to "Prince", "Dirty Mind", "Controversy", "1999" and "Purple Rain" where (mostly) recorded with the Hohner!
In 1984 the Hohner was replaced by the guitar called "The Cloud", a custom guitar buildt by David Husain (build ca. 1983), a luthier at Knut Koupee music store in Minneapolis Minnesota.
In 1990 Hohner built a Custom Model of the Tele called Hohner Professional "The Prinz" with a Fender Headstock. Fender prohibited the building of the Tele with the Fender Headstock and so a later Model was called "TE Prinz" with a Hohner Headstock.
Includes these extras:
Purple Rain 20th Anniversary 2 Disc DVD
Get m' Get m' animal print guitar strap
Glossy photo of Price with his Hohner and the get m get m animal print guitar strap.
Original Hohner brochure which features a color pic of the guitar & details the woods used in construction
