This Hoyer was sitting in the music shop near my old flat for 700 DM. There was also a right-handed one which was later sold to my bandmate in "Dead End Street". Hoyer is a famous name in Germany, once being a rival to Höfner and Framus. It's most memorable guitar was named the "Herr in Frack" (Man in evening dress). This Hoyer, however, is built by a revival of the company which imports guitars from Korea, despite which it's a really nice acoustic. It's handled 99% of my acoustic recording, and usually comes with me to parties and barbeques. It's fitted with a fishman preamp. It was originally fitted with 13s, but I found that fitting electro-acoustic 10s made it far easier to play, and anyway, it's an electro-acoustic, and so it doesn't really need a heavy set of strings to drive the soundbox. Whilst recording at Topaz, Reinhard, the owner, said that it had a lovely sweet acoustic sound. Sadly I didn't get to find out if it sounded even lovelier when recorded with one of his expensive Neumann mikes, as he DI'd it.