Marma semi-hollow guitar

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Marma is one of the less documented GDR-era guitar brand (I know, that's the 5th Marma I post on Guitarz and I say more or less the same thing) and one of my favorite brands. This model is not of the eccentric kind, but more one the elegant ones. 

Like usually you can recognize elements that Marma shared with other brands - pickups, bridge, tremolo (the arm is missing but it's meant to be very long), freeboard... The body line looks common but the cutaway is actually quite unique - I've never seen one like that before.

Bertram D

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Marma hollow body guitar, from GDR with love

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Due to popular demand, here is another East-German beauty, a Marma hollow-body guitar about which - like usually with Marma - I have no information... But look at it, Marma had the sweetest electric guitars designs in the Eastern-European communist countries, combining elegance, simplicity and creativity.

This one doesn't have the massive aspect that jazz guitars had in West-Germany at the time - though their often extraordinary design, they were so huge! - but a sexy thin waist line, and combines classic F-holes with white binding - beautiful with the subtle sunburst finish - with an art-deco pickguard. You can also recognize the typical stop-tail shared buy all the hollow-body guitars in GDR!

Bertram

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More Marma - a pure beauty

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Once again, I have very little to tell about this Marma solid body, but that it has one of the most astonishing designs I've ever seen in a guitar. And it's not only original, it's beautiful, dynamic, elegant, joyful...

I stated this several times already, but I do wish someone would revive this kind of extremely cool European vintage guitars, not only American or Japanese ones like Eastwood does!

bertram

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So, Musima, Migma or Marma?

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Dear readers,

that will be the question that all true guitar lovers will ask themselves henceforth: is this unbranded vintage East-german guitar a Musima, a Migma or a Marma (the three leading electric guitar brands in GDR, that - according to a comment about the previous Marma post - used to subcontract parts making to each others since they didn't have to compete, thus making some models almost impossible to differen-tiate)?

bertram (thanx to David B and Karl)

Marma hollow body guitar

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Another brand about which I have very little to tell (in these times of vintage worship, I wish someone would seriously write the ultimate book about unknown electric guitars), this time from East-germany. This Marma is not as exuberant as the guitars from West-Germany of the time, but it's very elegant with its classic shape, curved pickguard, sound holes, control plate and tail, and its long tremolo arm.

Marma produced also solid bodies, banjos and some guitar devices that I will present soon here (and all information about Marma is welcome).

bertram

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