Talk:Hohner

Hohner needs to upgrade Old Standby

I am a fan of the Old Standby, model 34B. However I have been very disgusted for the past decade because Hohner has turned a fine, German made instrument into a cheap Chinese made piece of junk. I bought one of these new version 34Bs, and a reed blew out in a couple weeks, and the cover plates tarnished in days. 34B is a classic model...I believe it is even older than the Marine Band. It is a shame to treat this classic harp, and its fans, with such disrespect.

I plead with Hohner to upgrade the quality of the Old Standby to be comparable with the Big River Harp. Start making 34B in Germany again, make it a fine instrument again, but keep the low price, as they do with the Big River. Where the Big River is the low price entry in the MS series, revamp the Old Standby to be a low price alternative to the Special 20. Upgrade the Old Standby to be a high quality German made harp with a low price. Azariah Marvel (talk) 20:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Other musical instruments

Hohner might lead the world in harmonicas, but is that a reason to ignore the huge variety of other instruments they have produced?78.33.116.240 (talk) 11:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely not! This article needs to be extended to cover guitars, basses, drums etc. The Yowser (talk) 15:01, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Or just rename it Hohner harmonicas...? Nobody seems to care much about all that other stuff.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 03:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

A lot of people very much care about Hohner guitars and they (and Hohner) are very badly serviced by this page. Just dismissing it as "all that other stuff" doesn't seem very helpful or, indeed, much in the spirit of being encyclopaedic.

Anyway, I'm going to improve the (currently non existent) guitar & bass section and try to fix some of the other content and referencing issues along the way. I'm assuming from the tumbleweeds here that nobody is going to mind. Heston.blumenthal (talk) 12:55, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

needs MUCH upgrade

First, the Refimprove. The lede alone is terrible, setting a tone with inflated claims and not even an attempt at sourcing.

The recurring fanboy sin: repeated claims to "notable players" with no objective outside authority (not even the company itself!) actually making the claim that these clusters are somehow significant or representative or complete. For all we know, a namedropped player actually plays Lee Oskar harps and despises (but once played) Hohner. At least a list of past or present official endorsees would be verifiable.

Should this article be about Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH or Hohner musical instruments or Hohner harmonicas? It is doing a poor job of covering all bases: where is discussion of their accordions, let alone fullsize keyboards? How about their place in the current ukulele fad?

The Subdivisions section is just... weird. What EXACTLY are we to be divvying here? And why is there only one option presented?

Harmonica models should not be discussed in the present tense unless they are presently available commercially AND this is validated by a credible source. Perhaps separating them into current vs. legacy models. And if the list cannot be made reasonably complete, then each past model ought to have mention of why it is somehow significant, whether through association with some non-obscure player or media (cinema, TV) or as a predecessor of a more-remembered model.

To be properly encyclopedic about Hohner harmonicas, there ought to be some effort put into discussing the engineering, the design evolution of these products, beginning with how the company ramped up from a kitchen-table craft operation to an assembly-line factory and automation. There is also the potential to mention how the company functioned during the Hitler era, and as well during the earlier anti-German sentiment in the United States.

Well, that's for starters.
Weeb Dingle (talk) 15:21, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

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