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Framus Netherlands – Episode 2: Javahula
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Bali, Tahiti, Waikiki or Sumbawa. Framus created a furore with these exotic model names when the emerging West-German guitar manufacturer presented Hawaii-guitars to the market for the first time in the beginning 50's. The Hawaii-music had begun its triumphal procession in the US already in the 30's when in the beginning 50's the Germans also started to get enthused for the Hula-dance.
Supported by leading musicians like Heinz Reinhardt of the Framus-String-Band, several models were developed, amongst others the remarkable double-neck guitar „Electra Orchestra“. The lap-steels, equipped with electronics, could live without a resonance body, thus having rapidly got the nickname „jamming boards“ by the instrument builders. The best known Dutch band of this genre was celebrated in the Netherlands already in the 40's. The „Kilima Hawaiians“ hat their break-through in 1953 with the song „Es hängt ein Pferdehalfter an der Wand“ („There's a headstall hanging on the wall“) (by Carson Robison), which has been sold more than a million times and for which they got the Golden Record in 1954. Theo Ehrlicher (1916-2007), probably Europe's best-known virtuoso at his time and a member of the „Kilima Hawaiians“, could get enthused for Framus guitars. Hence, his portrait adorns the first booklet for Hawaii-guitars. | 
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Oberkrain Music is back!
The tickets are directly available at our webshop for 10€. (Click image for full view)
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Blossom Toe
“Blossom Toe”: A German student-band of the late 1960s… Back in the 1960’s, Framus instruments were
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Award for Framus
Award for FRAMUS VINTAGE: The rediscovery of the Framus history The award for „historical communications“ of the
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Framus Nederland Vol. I
FRAMUS NETHERLANDS – Part 1: Jazz(y) beginnings Jan Akkerman, of course, used to be the most influential Dutch guitarist
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Magyar Blues
MAGYAR BLUES in the FRAMUS MUSEUM Paid Holiday - Founded in 1994 as a young enthusiastic west-coast blues band soon they found
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Happy Birthday Peter Kraus!
Framus congratulates Peter Kraus! Peter Kraus celebrated his 70th birthday in March and in October he´ll hit the road for
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Musik Messe News 2009 - The Book on Framus Vintage Instruments
Just in time fo r the Frankfurt Musik Messe 2009 our book on Framus Vintage Instruments has been completed. It ideally
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Mitja Mastnak and his signature-guitar
The track record continues… The Framus LP 10 is a new model for 2009 and will be introduced at this year´s
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Who knows this band???
We found this picture in our image archive. It was taken in the late 1960s, most probably in what was
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Vicens Vacca
Obituary for Vicens Vacca – the great Spanish pioneer of jazz guitar From the Spanish guitarist and Framus endorser Jordi
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Archtop Meeting
Framus Vintage at the International Archtop Meeting Germany Themed “50 Years AZ-10“, ‘Framus
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Oberkrainer-Sound at Framus!
Oberkrainer-Sound at Framus! Last Saturday, Gregor Avsenik and eight musicians from the Mitja kvintet visited our Framus
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Beatles´ Guitars on display in the FRAMUS MUSEUM
Beatles - "Back to Germany"! Guitars from England complement Framus collection in Markneukirchen/ Saxony
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Bassology: From Double Bass to Bass Guitar Prototype of 1950 turned up
Framus was concerned with the wishes of bass players from the very beginning of the company´s existence. Already at
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The 1st Bill Lawrence Club in Germany
These days Bill Lawrence is known for being the King of Pickups. At the end of the 1940s he was a young but well known
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Vintage made in Germany: Trabant Rally at Framus
The 15th international Trabant-Rally passed through Markneukirchen last week – and of course the participants
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Who knows this Band ?
We find this picture in our image archiv. It was made in 1970. Who knows this band and can tell us a lot of
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“Inspired by Spanish sounds…“
The now 83-year old thoroughbred musician, arranger, composer and conductor Heinz Schultze can be considered a Framus
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1958: Framus Reaches the Solid-Body Era
The first “board“ - as it was initially and deprecatingly called by luthiers - left the Framus factory in
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Review of Framus-Vintage at Frankfurt MusikMesse 2008
This year, Framus Vintage had its own extraordinarily big booth at the Frankfurt Musikmesse. This special booth was constructed
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Music Fair in Frankfurt 2008: 50 Years AZ-10
Today he’s a jazz legend. The name Attila Zoller is tied to a very special chapter in the history of Framus –
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In search of that old sound
Sascha Delbrouck wanted to find it: a balance between the sound of a conventional electric bass and an upright
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A New Hit!
These same bold words advertised Framus’ newest product in 1957 – an upright bass with a cutaway. At that
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Josef Wilfer master violin at the Museum
When Framus was founded in 1946, violins, cellos, and double basses were predominant in their instrument production, before the
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Ladi Geisler – for the 80th birthday of the living Swing legend
After the war captivity in Denmark where he learned to play guitar as an autodidact, he landed in Hamburg with his
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Ingo and his Framus Amateur
My name is Ingo, I live in Hannover, Germany and I have been playing guitar for 10 years now and I also have a Framus. I always
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Bill Lawrence alias Billy Lorento
Guest of honour on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Warwick company was the today 76-years-old Bill Lawrence alias
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Holland, Akkerman and Studio Spitsbergen
A musical story about Coos Grevelink... He was born 1958 in Assen/Netherlands and bought his Framus Akkerman guitar in 1976. A
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Framus – Built In The Heart Of Bavaria
Furnished up with numerous pictures and photos, this book is not only describing the life’s work of Fred Wilfer, the father of
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Framus Museum opening ceremony
There are two big ceremonies that will be knocking on our doors. On the Framus side we will have the highly anticipated opening
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Framus Goes Nashville
One of the biggest projects realised by Framus in its history, is tied to the buzz-word “Nashville“. This step became
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The Triumph-Bass in the US
At the 1958 NAMM Show in Chicago, the Philadelphia Music Company and Framus presented themselves together for the first time.
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The Philadelphia Music Company
A turning point in Framus’ US business was when Fred A. Wilfer met Fred Baas in 1957 in Munich. During their conversation,
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Harold Krämer and his Framus Texan
The DAG folk group, a quartet consisting of Willi Weber, Angelika Stettner, Renate Strack and Harold Krämer, played in the very
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Replacement Parts in the Vintage Web-Shop
Older guitars tend to need replacement parts from time to time, since the original ones are worn out or sometimes simply get
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New Pictures of the Finishing Work at the Museum
The weather is grey, wet and chilly, but the operations at the Framus Museum are progressing pretty well. Thus, some openings in
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Legendary, unique, historic – Jan Akkerman
In the September issue of the British music magazine Guitar Buyer (#61) there is an article entitled Focus on Framus * by Paul
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