One of the rarest and most striking electric guitars of the 1960s, in fully original condition.
 
The model
Dynacord is remembered today as a German professional-audio name — amplifiers, echo units, PA systems, built in Straubing, Bavaria. For a brief window in the mid-1960s the company decided to extend that reputation into instrument building, and launched a short series of experimental electric guitars. The Cora was the flagship of that effort.
Its defining feature is the tubular chrome wire frame that surrounds a solid wooden centre block, an approach with no real precedent at the time and one that predates most of the sculptural, Wandre-influenced designs that followed. It was engineering-led rather than fashion-led — exactly what you would expect from a company whose day job was building electronics for stages.
 
Production was tiny. Estimates put total output of the wire-frame Coras at somewhere between roughly 100 and 130 examples across 1965–1968, spread over a handful of finish variants: black/chrome, red/gold, silver, natural. Very few survive, and fewer still with their electronics and hardware untouched. The model's cult status was sealed when one turned up in the personal studio collection of Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk.
 
Specification
Laminated maple neck with a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, zero fret and string-guide nut, dot markers on the bass side of the board only, and a short 24.5" scale. Black-finished maple centre section framed by the chrome tube body. Six pearloid-button tuners on a black headstock.
Three Dynacord single-coil pickups, each with its own side-mounted on/off toggle and volume control — an unusually flexible layout for the period, and the source of the Cora's range of tones, from thin and cutting to a thick, midrange-forward blend with all three engaged. The circuit runs on a printed board, another sign of the company's electronics background. Chrome adjustable bridge and original vibrato tailpiece.
 
Originality and condition
This example is all original, inside and out — pickups, wiring, board, hardware and finish. It retains its original 3-pin DIN output socket, the German stage-connector standard of the era, which the great majority of surviving Coras lost long ago to a routed-out 6.3 mm jack. Keeping it intact is one of the clearest markers of an unmolested example. A DIN-to-jack adaptor cable is included, so the guitar plugs straight into any modern amplifier with no modification whatsoever.
 
Overall condition is very good, with only light and normal playing wear for its age. It comes with a recent hard case.
 
A genuine piece of European guitar history: rare, visually unmistakable, properly playable, and preserved in the state it left Bavaria in.