Hofner Galaxie short scale CT bass, 208 Hello Music

[fenderhutz]

Howdy,

I just picked up this from Hello Music. I tried the HM30NEW code and it worked and grabbed it for 178 shipped.



Youtube vid. Cool old vintage tone.

Jonny Musikk - Ho

[Tunaman]

How about the ESP? Thats pretty low as well

[fenderhutz]

Yeah. I owned a similar LTD and the QC on that bass turned me off LTD's for a while.

[hifibass]

One of the grandkids just got a nice 1st bass.

[placeboe]

Anyone know what country these are made in?

[rizzo9247]

Cool little bass

Amazon has these for 329, for comparison

Hofner CT Series Galaxy Short Scale Bass; Blue:Amazon:Musical Instruments

[fenderhutz]

Originally Posted by hifibass

One of the grandkids just got a nice 1st bass.

Probably China. I think Hofners lower end stuff is made there.

[fenderhutz]

Hello Music is awesome. They listed an orange one of the same bass which I prefer the color of and they let me switch it no questions asked.

Cool company. Phone call took all of about three minutes.

[Marko5657]

Originally Posted by Tunaman

How about the ESP? Thats pretty low as well

I was somewhat tempted by that...

Very nice looking bass at what appears to be a good price.

[rizzo9247]

Picked one up, im a sucker for orange basses!

[Bongolation]

Does it have the German pickups? Some of the cheap guitars do, some don't.

What color is that?

[jasper383]

They look like the pickups in the violin/club basses.

[JonKim]

i couldnt resist for $178 shipped

[dhyayi]

hello fenderhutz,
love the orange color.....

[Bongolation]

Though I think those are the German pickups and I was going to go for it if they had them in blue, it finally sunk in that these were 30"ers. That's a deal-killer for me because the hassle and expense of getting the kind of strings I want that will actually fit. [sigh!]

Anyway, good luck with these! I have a couple of the Chinese Hofner solidbody guitars that are really nice. The Colorama Custom has the German "Diamond" mini-humbuckers and aside from epic neckdive is a splendid-sounding guitar. The Colorama is essentially the same axe but with dud Korean soapbars. The original German pickups make a BIG difference on these.

[Bongolation]

I may be doing a video of a Stephan Remmler cover and a mint-blue Höfner would just be too perfect, so I called Hello and they had one blue one left.

So, I bought it purely as a prop. Heck with the strings, I'm not going to play it anyway.

[And yes, I know Stephan Remmler was famous for having no bass in his recordings.]

[jasper383]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

Though I think those are the German pickups and I was going to go for it if they had them in blue, it finally sunk in that these were 30"ers. That's a deal-killer for me because the hassle and expense of getting the kind of strings I want that will actually fit. [sigh!]
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Won't regular short scale strings fit these?

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by jasper383

Won't regular short scale strings fit these?

After ~45 years, I've come to the conclusion there's no such thing as a "regular" bass string that predictably fits properly.

I want fairly heavy flats to try to get the tension up because it's short-scale, and they are expensive for short scales relative to buying, say, Fender 9050*s...especially if they don't fit! (regular Fender bass strings don't even properly fit Fender toploading basses, but I digress) Short scale flats start at about $30, which is a lot to waste on something you might not be able to use.

I've religiously avoided short scale basses because of this nuisance.

[Bongolation]

Not German pickups:

------Original Message------
From: Owner
To: VM
ReplyTo: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Kontaktformular hofner.com
Sent: Apr 16, 2012 5:08 AM

Hi no they are made in Korea. They sound great and are high output mini humbuckers. Thanks for the email

[rizzo9247]

Anyone receive shipping confirmation yet?