John Lennon’s Hootenanny 12-string sold for $2.8m last year – now Framus has revived the acoustic with the Lennon estate’s approval
One of the most expensive guitars ever sold at auction gets a long-awaited return six decades after John Lennon used it to ...
Framus reissues John Lennon’s record-breaking $2.85m “Help” Hootenanny 12-string
Framus unveils a period-correct replica of the most expensive Beatles instrument sold at auction, the 12-string that Lennon played on Help! and Rubber Soul – and there’s a six-string too ...
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John Lennon’s legendary Framus 12-string gets an official reissue just months after its landmark sale
The guitar, used on a string of Beatles hits and missing for 50 years, has since become one of the most expensive guitars ...
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Michael Schenker on Vs, offsets, and the Scorpions
“In the beginning we had a Framus and a Hofner, and then my brother went to a big-bodied Gibson and I went more for the Fenders, like the Jazzmaster. Then I got a Les Paul Custom, a Les Paul ...
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NAMM 2025: New MIDI-integrated Rhodes pianos merge old-school craft with extended expression via polyphonic aftertouch
NAMM 2025: Since its 2021 resurrection, Rhodes has been on a mission to bring its venerated legacy into the workflows of modern music-makers. The re-make of the MK8 tightly balanced the aesthetic ...