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Company: Harmony
Model#: Stella, H 933
Year: 1969
Description: This instrument was purchased new by my
parents for about $35.00, from the Music House in the Harundale Mall, Glen Burnie,
Maryland.
Here's a quote form Lindsey Buckingham of Fleet wood Mac fame...
Question from the
Gibson Guitars website:
Wasn't your very first guitar a cheap Harmony acoustic?
L.B.:"That's right, although I first
learned some chords on a plastic ukulele. There was a TV show called The
Mickey Mouse Club, which marketed a smaller version of what the guy on
the show played. When I was about eight years old, I got a Harmony
6-string three-quarter-size guitar for Christmas. I think it cost about
35 or 40 bucks."
This instrument was my first real wooden guitar. It remains in
good, playable condition. The bridge has pulled up slightly, and
is now held in place by two screws. Two recent cracks in the top have
been professionally repaired. Other than one missing string
ferrule, the guitar remains all original. I still have the
original softshell case with a sticker I out on the lid that reads
"Individualist, Unite." This guitar appeared in
Vintage Guitar Magazine in a picture with my other three Harmony guitars
called "Four Part Harmony." All of my Harmonys were made in
the USA and are all solid wood instruments.
