Dating a Harmony Guitar - The Acoustic Guitar Forum

There are some variations in the theses date stamp, (in an oval box to a few pre-war models), but in General, all the guitars had. But like all the other students in the class of guitars that were imported, the imported harmony's were comparable.Consider this mass production of guitars and see what was lost with the demise of these companies. You would end up glue slop all over the inside and do other things, they produced reflect the fact that in bulk. If this is in the studio, specials and Stella line of flat-tops, the harmony was more and more acoustic guitars per year. Maybe even half of all the guitars from that in this country, more than all other manufacturers together. The Jumbo States, a natural model No. 1260 with a pinless bridge and a deluxe-sunburst-model No. 1265 with a deluxe pin bridge offered. The top of the line H71, H72 and H61 were their Professional double cutaway E-guitar, all of them had a double cross-venation (round) cutaway. At the beginning of the 1950s, the electric Spanish guitar was coming in popularity with guitar players. This modified, double-cutaway, it was a variation of the meteors, which were introduced in the early 1960s. This two-tone blue guitar was a single wound magnetic pickup with a tone and volume control and 8-foot power cord. If you have the production could be increased, with more plants, the guitars you would have to keep up with the demand for budget. In the 1971 catalog, this was replaced by triple-pickup guitar, with the H71 double-pickup, double-cutaway electric. All this guitar wore a turtle headsock overlay, and similar features as the previous guitars. Tip: to check on many guitars (flat-top acoustic), harmony is the top of the guitar and the back is embossed, so that, if the number on the back is hard to read, use a mirror and check under the top (near the neck), The other smaller stamp is the date stamp and shows the year of production. With a bigsby tailpiece, this guitar is the only electric left in the line with the tortoise headstock.

You were on the same Assembly line in the factory, and, of course, the body was the same, the routing of the holes. The DeArmond designed pickups with adjustable Magnetic pole pieces, together with the 9 controls gave an infinite range of tonal effects. The ovalled rosewood fingerboard adorned with block inlays. One of the largest manufacturer of student guitars vying founded in 1892, only of people like Kay, they produced a plethora of instruments. As they took the Professional label from the catalog, so the level of expectation of harmony electrics went. My first guitar, an acoustic harmony, and learning to play the guitar inspired by one of these student instruments. It allows the player to switch between treble, bass or rhythm-what is the player the versatility of a guitar with more pickups. Even if the harmony name was used on these imports in the 70s, the quality and the mystique was lost. Much has been written about the harmony guitar company, but there is not much information about these guitars.

During the last two weeks of June was trying to finish as many orders as possible and not any new orders. This was a wonderful-sounding Premier B-160 Club Bass, an especially good sounding Blues amp for guitar. This together with a 3-way switch allows for fast switching between the cartridges and allows for a variety of sound. How were they to build similar models on the same line at the same time, we often see this kind of interference between the model and the stamped number. To offer whether it is the influence of the motion picture industry or harmony attempt to appeal to a guitar, more and more people, they came up with a more favorable effect Colorama electric Spanish guitar. The peculiarity was that the Hollow sound-chamber design, instead of solid wood. The additions to the vibrant body tones combined with improved pickups, extended their range and versatility is a perfect response and tone balance. The H45 is a single-pickup, and the H46 double pickup both had a slide switch on the pickguard for a quick change of the sound effects. From the acoustics I used to sell to the yard sale-electrics, which I used to find, I've seen quite a few different guitars. Only guilds with aristocrats, or Blues bird made a thinner E-guitar with hollow sound chamber. The archtop guitar have been, are now, since the electronics, pickups and amplifiers were perfected, the need for an electric, Spanish-style guitar was necessary. There were differences, the change to the guitars, the model numbers, but the guitar remained very similar to its previous predecessor.