Description
A guitar made by Franz Hirsch for the Roger company before the war. Bears huge similarity to the Roger Stromlinie guitar from 1939. Both of them are also strikingly similar design-wise to the 1939 Gretsch Synchromatic model, down to a quite distinctive combination of specific hardware shape, binding and general styling with small alterations (a reference picture is attached here in the gallery).
According to H. Rittinger, this guitar was partially finished later, in the period between 1950-1953 by Olga Adelmann (a highly profilic maker and restorer who also went to become probably the first modern female master violin maker in the world). She worked with R. Rossmeisel at that time in the Berlin workshop.
Period of manufacture
1930s
Place/region of manufacture
Schonbach/Berlin
Top type
Archtop
Bracing type
Parallel (archtop)
Headstock type
Plain
Scale lenght (mm)
630
Neck material
Maple
Neck joint type
Unknown
Fretboard material
Rosewood
Fretboard profile
Radiused
Frets material
Nickel
Frets type
Modern (with tangs)
Top material
Solid spruce
Back material
Maple (flame)
Sides material
Maple (flamed)
Bridge material
Rosewood
Bridge type
Floating