Some even used nearly the same headstock ornaments, but with slightly different black stripes or angles. The odd shaped f-holes, are also used by Framus, and sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference between all these brands. While Josef Sandner’s Isana was not related to Fasan and Alosa, these brands to carry some similarities. Around the early 60’s he’d be building solid body guitars too.Įlvis Presley had a black, no-pickup, Isana archtop when he was drafted in Germany, but later fitted an “Ideal” pickup himself. Most of them where sans pickups at the time, but later on pickups where attached to the neck and eventually on the body itself as well.
These guitars are solid carved archtops, crafted by hand. In April 1947 Josef Sandner and Franz Himmer started up a shop where Sandner built classical and solo guitars from middle to high in pricerange. Sandner was, contrary to popular belief, not related to Franz Sandner (Fasan guitars) or Alois Sandner (Alosa guitars).
Isana was a fairly small company in West-Germany, Nauheim, run by masterbuilder Josef Sandner, who was trained by Rudolf Mettal. So, for those of you who can’t understand a single German word, and don’t want to read 25 page forum treads….
I had to dig for a while to come up with all the info there is to find online.which is not a lot.Įven worse, half of it is in German, and my German isn’t really all that good, but I can manage to figure out what’s said.
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