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Does anyone know what this guitar is ? I thought it looked like a Hofner but I know that cant be right
Trayc x

Hi Trayc,
Pleased to see you took my advise and joined Shadow Music, your comment about the guitar looking like a Hofner is a good one, but the headstock
says it is not a Hofner, a long time ago I played a Kay accoustic guitar I am not saying this one is a Kay but it could be. This is a poser of a question
well done that girl, this will have the guys on this site guessing But not for long you watch
please give my best to your Dad, Are you still doing the Pin up photography ? if so wheres my calandar for 2011 ?
Take care Trayc
John

Very German looking, with that Hofner frequensator tailpiece and those full-width fretboard block markers. But the headstock looks very "Zenith" to me. The pickup and controls are an after-market fitment (there was a lot of it about at the time - circa 1959).

JN

http://www.stringedinstrumentpeddler.com/inventory/MVC-165S.JPG

Definitely German, it has sort of Framus style soundholes- or maybe Hoyer, Hopf, etc.

Wasn't Zenith merely a Boosey & Hawkes UK distributor brand, like Antoria was just a UK only brand name, for otherwise 'foreign' made and named instruments?
(Before all this truth in labelling business, back then all stuff was labelled either 'Made in Gt. Britain', 'Empire Made' or 'Foreign'....)

Either way, they were all much of a muchness, but they were about all anyone could afford back then, and they were at least better than the many really cheap and nasty small round hole beginners jobs- you graduated to a 'cello' type guitar when you could convince your parents that you were serious about playing guitar and it wasn't just a five minute fad...and that you were sick of having sore and bleeding fingers...at least the f-hole jobs had adjustable bridges...and one day you MIGHT be able to get a cheap pickup to put on it........blimey, I feel really old now...recalling all this stuff.

Yes, very German looking. Has indeed certain features as seen on 1950`s era Framus models. Headstock logo says K.P.
K.P guitars were imported from Europe and marketed in U.K , among other models, as a "house brand" for distributor J.E.Dallas & Sons.