Product: Harmony Marquis
Price Paid: USD 10.00 USED
Submitted
06/15/2008
at
09:51pm
by
ray baby
Email: cohotts at yahoo<dot>com
Features
:
7
martinish
have no idea what it make out of.
smallish dreadnought size
no pick guard on mine
made in korea
Sound
:
8
nice stummer for the front porch or tune for slide and playing around with open tunings., Do some Big Joe Williams with it.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
7
good tuners; hold tuning, action is high, , still working with truss rod and bridge for my liking, but ok for 70's eagle's strumming as is.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
I'd play live, no problem, but this is a guitar just to kick around with, a good guitar to call a friend on the phone and say "I'll bring my guitar with me".
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
7
Picked it up for $10 , with can I say?, great value for me, camw with a case.
wouldnt replace if broke or stolen, good good for what it is, I have a 1981 takemine that sounds a lot better, but this guitar has some "life" in it; sound-wise.
Product: Harmony Marquis
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
10/07/2006
at
10:58am
by
mike baggett
Email: mikebaggett<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
9
Bought this guitar used in early 90's. Looks like a Martin D-18. The finish was light. Dreadnought size, laminated top, no electronics.
Sound
:
8
Guitar was fairly loud and suited my playing style well. I play rock, country, blues,. It was mainly a strummer guitar. I liked it but thought it was a cheaper guitar. I sold it but miss the thing now.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
No Opinion
Action was good. Finish was not perfect. One of the tuning pegs broke off after a few years but I didn't baby this guitar.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
The guitar was tough as nails. I would do the little virbato deal by pulling the neck back while playing. It stayed in ture. I used to throw it in the trunk of my car and it would stay there for hours with temperatures in the 90's! It never came apart. Knowing better now, I'd never do that to any guitar now knowing what heat can do to guitars. I never had a case for the guitar. I used it alone playing out many times. Don't remember it having strap buttons.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
N/A
Overall Rating
:
8
Playing 30 years. Own Casino, SG, Ibanez Artcord AF-75, Digitech 2000, Vox pathfinder, Epiphone one tube head and cab, etc. I sold it for almost as much as I paid for it. I wouldn't buy it again because I'd buy a higher value guitar like Martin. I liked the sound and dependabity. It did the job. I would recommend it if someone could find one and for a bargain as I did. I didn't compare it to anything else. A student at Ole Miss was selling it and I got it cheap--$125. I'm currently looking to buy a Martin. Anything else I'd like to share? Yes. Don't settle for less than what you really, really want in anything. When you settle for less you will eventually end up buying what you want or will not because you keep settling for a lot of somethings that are not what you really wanted and get stuck with them; hence, can't afford to buy what you really want! Save your money and take the big dive be it a Martin D-28 or whatever. In the long run you end up saving yourself money. Be patient, work, save and get what you want.
Mike Baggett
