At the beginning of November 2024 the “Hanika International Guitar Competition” took place for the first time in Bangkok. Armin Hanika travelled to Thailand too, to present the first prize , a “Hanika 1a-DTL Custom”, to the winner himself.
At the end of last year, Siccas Guitars in Karlsruhe invited our sales representative and qualified concert guitarist, Gergely Szurgyi, and recorded two new „YouTube“ videos with him.
At the invitation of Siccas Guitars in Karlsruhe, Gergely Szurgyi, sales representative at “Hanika Guitars” and a qualified concert guitarist, recorded a whole concert on various Hanika professional line models for a "YouTube" video.
Hanika guitars is expanding its range with four multi-stringed models – a 7 and an 8-stringed model in the recital line (Hanika 7-Pro and Hanika 8-Pro) and a 7- and an 8-stringed model in the professional line (Hanika 7-Meister and Hanika 8-Meister).
In 1953, company founder Helmut Hanika manufactured his first classical guitars in Baiersdorf, Bavaria. This year, Hanika Guitars is celebrating its 70th anniversary with the current owner, Armin Hanika. A guitar from our well-known workshop is still a symbol of quality and traditional craftsmanship and our "Limited Edition" for the anniversary tells a story of its own.
Martin Weiss is a professional guitarist from Cologne and together with the Swedish-Argentinian singer Alicia Nilsson he forms the "ALMA ACOUSTIC DUO" . Martin is a Hanika player for many years and in November 2021 he could pick up his new Hanika HE-Lattice “ALMA model” in our workshop in Baiersdorf, specially made according to his specifications.
