Hi Guys, just wanted to share my vintage HG360M from November 1977. Ive had it for around 30 years and has a great sound and i love playing it. I bought it from a former work colleague for £25 back in 1995 and i hope its worth more now. It has lovely mother of pearl type inlays and lovely rear to guitar and lovely condition for age. Any info on if its rare or rough value would be nice to know. Hope you like the pic
Glad you’re still enjoying your vintage Hohner guitar! You’d need to give us the serial number in order to be able to find out anything about it.
Hi it wont let me attach a pic of label inside guitar but serial number is #3701010, november 1977 model HG 360 M
The Service Dept. says that the HG 360 M guitars were built in Japan between 1978 and 1985, but they couldn’t find any infos specific to this instrument. So you’re presumably right about the year of manufacture.
The Hohner archive tends to attribute most Japanese acoustic models to the years 1978 - 1985, but in reality that should probably be shifted a couple of years back at either end. There are numerous dated models from 1976 (even a 1975 showed up recently) and after 1983 production was pretty much moved to Korea. So 1977 is fine as a date.
The serial number doesn’t help with dating but the formatting is interesting. The only Japanese Hohner guitars to have a seven digit serial number starting with a 3 are HG-360Ms - even the sister HG-360R guitars have a different format. One collector noted that his HG-360M had “Morris Gakki Co” on the label so maybe these were actually made by Moridaira/Morris rather than being subcontracted to other factories as people suspect was the case for a lot of production.
HG-3xx models bring upper three figures depending on the specific model and condition. This is probably worth around $5-600
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