Product: Harmony H280
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
11/03/1999
at
11:39pm
by
Brian Sheets
Email: brian_sheets<at>yahoo dot com
Features
:
2
Made in Tiwan I think. 23 frets, but i forget.. H/H pickup configuration.. 2 switches, you can turn one or both pickups off. Body style is like a strat, but the cutaways are pretty much the same seize. I have no clue what pickups, nor do i care, they fuz and hum alot.. If you shake mine you can hear something moving around lose inside.
Sound
:
2
Nomatter which pickup you select it sounds the same.. It would suit no musical style, without a pickup change. For amplefication i'm using an 80s(?) stereo's aux input. I've played through a large Peavey amp, but it sounds the same. Sounds like an acoustic, without the rich sound, and with hum..
What I do is I use the last 3 strings. On the thickest two strings at the bottom you can make some really nice blues sounds though..
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
5
Action is adjustable, so it's pretty nice. The pickips are very noisy, and the selector switches are crude. The paint job is good (sun or tobacco burst). Alot of scratches and nicks in the bottome of the body.
Reliability/Durability
:
7
Guitar is very stable.. my dad told me he dropped it down the stairs about a month after he got it.. It has a few good nicks and scratches at the bottom of the body.. I would NOT rely on it for a gig, unless maybe it was for litte kids who knew no better.. This guitar is one strong SOB..
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
I don't want to deal with them. If the guitar broke(like the nec or body) i'd just leave the guitar.. or repair it a little and burn it on stage like Hendrix..
Overall Rating
:
3
Decent for a beginner's guitar, sepecialy if you like to play on the last three strings.. those are pretty much the only ones you can hear.. Don't buy it, unless you get it free. (And i mean like, you find it, or you win it. Not like someone bought it for you.) Save up for a Yamaha Pacifica 112 if you like rock stuffs. It's better than a Squire strat and get a Fender Bronco amp. Both are arround $200.