Harmony
Subtitle: the people's guitar, 1945-1975
By: Ron Rothman
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780764355202
Subjects: Guitar; Electric guitar; Construction; Harmony Guitar Company; History
Description: The American made instruments from The Harmony Guitar Company receive long overdue recognition and credit in this volume through detailed text, color photographs, and catalog information. Produced between 1945 and 1975, many musicians, both amateur and professional, began their musical experiences playing Harmony guitars. Rockets, Stratotones, Rebels, Sovereigns, and Stellas are examples included in this book with specific model information and catalog reprints, along with detailed photos. Basses and the other Harmony instruments are also represented. Well known players such as Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, and Dave Davies have had experiences with Harmony guitars, which are shared in this book. Read about the guitars that Harmony fans have come to love. See how Harmony grew to be one of the most prolific manufacturers of guitars in this country before their fall from grace in the mid 1970s.
Table of contents: title: Harmony: the people's guitar; title: Some of the parts ... of many guitars; title: Stellas to sovereigns: Harmony flat tops, 1950-1973; title: Harmony acoustic archtop guitars; title: Harmony Hollywood and the Spanish electric archtop guitars; title: Harmony Stratotone and the solid body electric guitars; title: Harmony amplifiers: making the music heard; title: Rocket to the stars and the Harmony professional guitars; title: Rebel with a cause; title: Harmony bass guitars: holding down the bottom!; title: Harmony Caribbean and Colorama guitars, and the different, unusual, or not so popular guitars; title: Roy Smeck: "Wizard of the String"; title: Harmony's folk instruments; title: Harmony reissues; title: Musicians and their Harmony guitars.