In the year 1892, Wilhalm Schultz started the Harmony Guitar Company; it was then bought by Sears in 1916 which became one of the largest producers of guitars in the US by 1928. Harmony was at the climax in 1965 when it had to cut down its production due to unhealthy competition from the low-end competitors, however, company had pondered itself in the production of student guitars and sold them through J C Penny. The goodwill Harmony was lately sold in 1975 marking the end to the road of Harmony vintage guitars.

The name is now used by “The Original Hamony Guitar Company, Inc” based in Palatine, IL. Though there are plenty of vintage guitars like the vintage Aria guitars, below are some of the Harmony guitars you may come across while looking for a good vintage guitar.

H44 Stratotone, sold from 1953 to 1957 for around $75, is a Spanish electric guitar belonging to the Stratone solid body family. The H44 has a thin-body finished in copper-bronze coating and had a slide switch to switch between bass and treble emphasis.

H49 Startotone Jupiter, an electric empty body guitar, was available at the price at around $150 from the period from 1958 to 1965. The Jupiter came with a variant of a 3-way lever, volume control, blender control, and tone control for its double pickups. It was crafted with a normal well-groomed pinnacle, especially slim neckline, fingerboard of rosewood finish, celluloid boundaries, and 7 inlaid points.

Marketed at an approximate price of $95, the H50 Jazzbox, is a Spanish electric guitar. This archtop guitar was crafted in a stiff scruffy peak and had a maple body. The exceptional element was the Kluson tuners.

H54 Rocket 2, marketed for around $120 between 1959 and 1967, is a piece of hollow body electric guitar. It comes with the variant of single cutaway, however, over a period of time it had under gone a few alteration. Initially it was obtainable only in sunburst finish but it was later available in red color from the year 1963. Moreover in the year 1966 the golden tone pickups were designed once again.

H54-1 Rocket 2, marked at around $140 between 1968 and 1971, is an upgraded version of H54 with the double cutaway.

H58 Jazzbox, was amongst the other models of Roy Smeck, found buyer at a price of around $130, from 1958 to 1962. Roy Smeck (1900-1994) had an endorsement to this guitar; it was an auditorium magnitude archtop electric guitar having a natural and black body.

H59 Rocket 3, was a vacant body electric guitar sold at an average price of $150 in the year from 1960 to 1967. Just like the Rocket 2, Rocket 3 was a solo cutaway and a sunburst finish which was then modified into red color in 1963. The only upgraded feature was that it had a variant of 3 pickups instead of 2 asit was the case with Rocket 2.

H59-1 Rocket 3, was marketed at a standard rate of $150 in the year 1968, was a dual cutaway edition of the H59. In addition it has the 3 pickups.

10s of millions of Harmony vintage guitars were crafted by the Harmony Guitar Company, not only that it had produced more than 100 different models, and has provided its guitar in more than 50 brand names throughout its life span. However, only few models were such which were in the list of my liking.

There are a lot of guitars to select from and countless reasons to choose any given model. So when you are ready to find a vintage guitar just do a quick search for Gibson guitars for sale or whichever brand you are looking for and good luck.

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