John Lennon's 12-string Framus "Hootenanny" guitar, heard on such Beatles tracks as "Help!" and "Norwegian Wood," sold for $2.8 million last year. Now players/collectors will be able to get a far more affordable version of their own.
Via Guitar World:
German luthier Framus has reissued its Hootenanny 12-string acoustic guitar, made famous by John Lennon 60 years ago.
...Recreating the guitar for a market release was no small feat. Framus used an identical 12-string Hootenanny, temporarily prised from its Framus Vintage Museum, and pages and pages of old documents to reconstruct it to the exact specifications of the original. Lennon's estate has approved the guitar's reissue.
...Available in 12-string (€1.099, approx. $1,145) and six-string (€999, approx. $1,040) models like Lennon's long-lost beloved, they comprise spruce tops, with mahogany for their back and sides. They too feature flat 19-fret rosewood fingerboards with a zero fret and are adorned with a decorative soundhole made of individual pieces of wood.
Beyond that, there's ivory binding, nickel Trapeze tailpieces, and nickel, closed vintage-style tuners. Other specs shared across the models include Framus’ choice of a black pickguard, ivory-colored dot inlays, and silver nickel frets. A special Hootenanny headstock is unique to each variant.
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