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I love this community because I'm learning a lot about where stuff is from. Case in point, I was going to suggest Ibanez and found out it's Japanese lol
I've played an Ibanez SR 300 bass on stage for years. I tried many others but nothing feels or sounds as good to me.
Well, at least it's not from murica
This is exactly what we should do for now - post every single post both here on Lemmy and on Reddit and we should constantly remind people that they have to switch to Lemmy!
The Reddit mods seems to not like Lemmy a lot: https://lemm.ee/post/57901024?scrollToComments=true
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What is reddit?
They will ban you for it now.
Strandberg
I've always wanted one of their 7 or 8 strings with the fanned frets but that price tag is steep
I've played one once in a shop and it was amazing. If I can ever afford to drop that much money on an instrument I will be going right to them
An if we want to support our Canadian friends: Godin. Excellent guitars
Solar.
Yes, they also have "Made in Europe"
I love Hohner brand guitars. Made in German, simply great sound and experience overall.
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I love my PJD custom shop Woodford Elite. They are a small UK based shop.
What EU brand would I be looking for if I wanted to buy a decent beginner friendly hollowbody?
Honestly I can warmly recommend the Thomann house brand, Harley Benton. The dirt cheap, entry level ones are on par with beginner models from known bands, and if you splurge a little more and get one of their nice ones, you'll have a really fine instrument for the price of the beginner model in the known brands.
They're German and the reason it's so cheap is they have 0 layers in the pipeline, they "manufacture" and sell directly. Most of their own brands punch well above their weight, but you should still look at the reviews etc for your specific item of choice.
EU brand, manufactured in Asia though.
Yeah for sure, and some of it is just curated OEM stuff they slap their logo on, but still the point stands. If you want manufactured in EU prices aren't gonna be the same.
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Hagstrรถm viking. Hagstrรถm alvar.
But they are only an EU-brand, not actually made in EU.
Thomann's house brand Harley Benton has some good guitars. Not sure about hollowbody guitars, but I have a semihollow guitar from HB that I play quite a lot and has good build quality.
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Warwick and Sandberg have a few made in Germany bass guitar lines that are pretty sick. Also Duesenberg - sooo beautiful
Manson guitars are from the UK.
Also there are several Japanese guitar companies - sure they're not European, but at least they're not American. Examples would be Ibanez, ESP, Yamaha.
A bit pricy, bit there is Strandberg Guitars which AFAIK are made in Uppsala, Sweden.
Most of the current production is made in Indonesia, some special editions in Japan. Still, great guitars.
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I use Yamaha bass. I think I wonโt change it anytime soon.
those guitars are also much higher quality than Gibson or fender
I haven't kept up with guitars in the past 20 years, but didn't fender and gipson fall off super hard quality wise?
I think Gibson has legitimately sunk in quality and is a shell of its former self, I'm not convinced Fender has. It is my understanding that QC slipped a bit during the pandemic and some instruments in rough shape left the factory, but I've seen reports of them honoring their warranty and replacing them with perfect instruments. I personally don't need another Fender, my '96 fat strat is still fit for purpose.
it's not a production or design issue (and there are many)
it's just that for some reason the quality control has sunk to levels that have become unacceptable
Also consider your local luthiers and other manufacturers, they're often in dire need of support, yet get none because their guitars don't have "Fender" or "Gibson" written on them.
So mayones IS an instrument! Someone tell Squidward!
Question from an Ibanez RG series lover - how do the Mayones, M-Tone and Vigier compare? Love me some long neck action and looking to expand my collection.
Also, I'd say Ibanez, but they're Japanese...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE
whichever one has the pickup and pickup positioning that gives the sound you want
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Japan makes the best IMO
Lowden Guitars, high quality acoustics, made in Northern Ireland. https://lowdenguitars.com/
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My electric guitar is a Swedish Hagstrรถm Ultra Swede, I always wanted to get a genuine Gibson Les Paul but never could afford one. So I ended up with the much cheaper Ultra Swede, have been playing with it for two years and I'm more than happy with it.
I also have two Finnish Landola acoustic guitars from the late 60's - early 70's, a 12-string "Colorado" model and a 6-string "Buffalo". Both sound excellent, especially after I made new bone nuts and saddles to replace the original plastic ones.
I wonder which one of these I can buy, locally, here in the US. I never looked specifically at non-US brands until now.
Jerzy Drozd (Spain) for bassists who never get enough love.
My last two guitars were Ormsby's, from Australia.
Skervesen guitars are amazing build quality
Daemoness, Blackat, Mayones, RAN
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