Longer reads built on our own numbers: brands, lines and the market behind the gear.
Stories · Oct 28, 2026
We checked 4,066 price cuts at Thomann over seven weeks. 85% were real: the old price had held for two weeks and the new one was the lowest we'd recorded. 4% were 'sales' that only undid a price rise from days before.
Stories · Oct 28, 2026
Four pedal brands, four profiles. Boss wins the most charts, Electro-Harmonix is the cheapest, MXR is always close behind, and Walrus Audio, the youngest, costs the most and wins two.
Stories · Oct 28, 2026
Only 1,329 of 37,165 products got more expensive in two months, against 3,655 that got cheaper. But the rises cluster: a quarter of acoustic pianos went up, and some products jumped 30 to 50%.
Stories · Oct 27, 2026
Four brands own metal guitars at Thomann. Ibanez has the most models and the most top-10 spots, ESP the most expensive range, and the #1 heavy guitar is a Jackson from $380.
Stories · Oct 27, 2026
Thomann's own brands cost a fraction of the big names: Harley Benton's median electric guitar is a tenth of Fender's. But the big names land in our top 10s far more often. Value at the entry level, the names at the top.
Stories · Oct 26, 2026
Martin lists more acoustic guitars at Thomann than any other brand and wins five of our eleven acoustic charts. Gibson owns the big bodies, and Taylor is the cheapest way into the three.
Stories · Oct 26, 2026
Yes: Thomann is a long-established German music retailer, founded in 1954. Our own evidence is two months of nightly prices: 87% never moved, cuts outnumbered increases almost three to one, and most of its weekly price drops were real.
Stories · Oct 26, 2026
Sennheiser lists almost three times as many microphone models at Thomann as Shure. Per model, Shure ranks higher: it holds 13 first places in our microphone rankings to Sennheiser's 8.
Stories · Oct 26, 2026
The cheapest instrument in each section is usually a trap. We looked for the cheapest one that also ranks well. For guitars it costs barely more; for brass and woodwinds, the decent one costs four to five times as much.
Stories · Oct 25, 2026
Three acoustic guitars cost more than $167,000 at Thomann, more than any piano. Then come a restored Steinway, an $81,019 octocontrabass clarinet and a church organ. Here's the most expensive item in each section.
Stories · Oct 24, 2026
At Thomann, Yamaha sells almost five times as many digital pianos as Roland, mostly home pianos like the Clavinova. But in portable pianos, Roland holds first and second place in our rankings.
Stories · Oct 24, 2026
Harley Benton has three times as many guitar models as Squier and costs about $70 less at the median. But Squier lands in the top 10 of our rankings far more often: 20 guitars to 14.
