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Essential Series
Essentials - All that is needed and nothing that is not.
F
rom day one we had more fun crafting the Essential series than any of our previous instruments. We had to strip away all of our
past notions during the building process and instead, focus on the essential qualities that these guitars needed to embody. What
was required in order to produce a great new guitar? Breaking it down to its most basic elements, these instruments needed to
have their own voice, to intonate perfectly in tune, all the way up and down the neck, and lastly, to play like butter. To encourage
the vibration of the tops, we eliminated the pick-guards and applied a micro-thin poly finish. Instead of including fancy ornamenta-
tion, we chose to focus on perfecting the manufacturing process and invest in the sound and playability of these guitars.
EL-SP PLUS
Body Style: Parlor
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Back/Sides: Mahogany
EL-SMJCE PLUS
Body Binding: NA
Body Style: Mini-Jumbo Cutaway
Neck: Mahogany
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Back/Sides: Mahogany
Bracing Pattern: "X" Bracing
Body Binding: NA
Bridge: Rosewood
Neck: Mahogany
Tuners: Chrome Die Cast
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Electronics: N/A
Bracing Pattern: "X" Bracing
Nut/Saddle: Earvana Compensated
Bridge: Rosewood
Tuning System
Tuners: Chrome Die Cast
Available Finishes: Micro-Thin
Electronics: Fishman Ion with
Poly Natural
Chromatic Tuner
Nut/Saddle: Earvana Compensated
Tuning System
Available Finishes: Micro-Thin
Poly Natural
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EL-SF PLUS
Body Style: Folk
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Back/Sides: Mahogany
Body Binding: NA
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Bracing Pattern: "X" Bracing
Bridge: Rosewood
Tuners: Chrome Die Cast
Electronics: N/A
Nut/Saddle: Earvana Compensated
Tuning System
Available Finishes: Micro-Thin
Poly Natural
Each Essential guitar goes through a 12-point inspection at
Hohner's US facility in Virginia to insure that every guitar is set
up to sound great. Intonation, action, and overall quality are
carefully checked.
Something old and something new.
T
o give the Essentials their own voice we developed a process
called "Frequency Matching". We distilled basic elements of a
technique called tap tuning, something that violin makers have
been doing for centuries, and match the Solid Sitka Spruce
top with a similarly resonant Mahogany back. When these two
pieces of wood vibrate in synergy you will find the guitar has
a pure, rich, singing tone that makes even the small bodied
parlor sound huge. To encourage the vibration of the tops we
eliminated the pickguards and applied a micro-thin poly finish.
Guitars by their very nature play consistently out of tune. In the
EL-SD PLUS
Body Style: Dreadnought
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Back/Sides: Mahogany
Body Binding: NA
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Bracing Pattern: "X" Bracing
Bridge: Rosewood
Tuners: Chrome Die Cast
Electronics: N/A
Nut/Saddle: Earvana Compensated
Tuning System
Available Finishes: Micro-Thin
Poly Natural
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first position play an E chord and it sounds perfectly in tune,
play a D chord and it's a little out, now play an A chord and
it may sound so badly out of tune that you want to tune up
again. This can only get worse as you play up the neck. To rec-
tify this situation, Hohner has equipped each Essential model
guitar with the Earvana Compensated Tuning System*. This
special nut and bridge system assures that the these guitars
play with perfect intonation up and down the neck making
them a pleasure to play.
ESTL-CC
Body Style: Classical
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Back/Sides: Mahogany
Body Binding: NA
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Bracing Pattern: "X" Bracing
Bridge: Rosewood
Tuners: Chrome Die Cast
Electronics: N/A
Nut/Saddle: Nubone™ by Tusq
Available Finishes: Micro-Thin
Poly Natural
Earvana Compensated
*Essential Classical not equipped with Earvana CTS system
Tuning System
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