Case of the very interesting Hoyer

[Quasar1]

Sporting Alembic electronics

https://sp.olx.com.br/sao-paulo-e-regiao/instrumentos-musicais/baixo-hoyer-t-stax-1-made-in-german-1984-1376746324

[edwardofhuncote]

New one on me. At a glance I thought it was one of those BullShark basses... body pattern is similar.

[Quasar1]

New one on me. At a glance I thought it was one of those BullShark basses... body pattern is similar.

Thanks Ed of H, I first thought it was a "Tune" bass (Japanese)

[edwardofhuncote]

Even closer!   


The Andreas BullShark had the same upper horn, but had an extended lower bout too... funny-looking thing, but there were about 50 of them with Alembic electronics made. Oh yeah, and aluminum fingerboards. I haven't seen one in years.

[gearhed289]

I was just watching some ELP from 1997 and Greg was playing a real nice looking Tune bass.

[gtrguy]

Hoyers are interesting instruments. They seem to have made a lot of models but few make it to the USA. They had an interesting Alembic copy too. Many had unique features. I worked on this Hoyer bass last year. It had a control that divided the pickup into top and bottom and allowed you to adjust the volume of each half. 

[matbard]

I was just watching some ELP from 1997 and Greg was playing a real nice looking Tune bass.

Greg Lake was a Tune (Japan, not the Korean one) endorser from the early '90s, after the Italian distributor presented him a couple of those basses during the "Black Moon" tour which came in Verona.

Unfortunately, the company was affected by the Kobe earthquake in 1995 and during the reorganization period that followed, the Korean distributor took over the brand and began selling copies of those intruments.

[keith_h]

A bass teacher I had in the late 70's played a Hoyer. It was similar in style to an Aria and Alembic but was a set neck. It was a very well built and playing bass as I recall. I also recall running across an 6-string acoustic archtop in the store around the same time but don't remember much about it.