Product: Harmony H71
Price Paid: US $560
Submitted
07/28/2001
at
02:02pm
by
pointman
Email: harper at shopmahopac<dot>com
Features
:
8
Made in the good old USA in 1971, the ONLY year this baby was produced . 21 frets, solid top, thin line, archtop, f-hole, double cutaway electric. 2 DeArmond pickups with volume and control knobs for each. It's got a factory Bigsby tremolo unit that IS a Bigsby, not "like a Bigsby". Slim maple neck with bound rosewood fretboard with pearl block inlays and inlayed Harmony logo and fleur d'whatever on the tortoise shell headstock. Everything is stock factory.
Sound
:
10
This guitar was born to play blues, rockabilly, jazz shuffle, and the like. It won't sound like a Les Paul, and a Les Paul could never sound like this. It can go from a trebly growl to a mellow bluesy sound by working the pickup selector and tone knobs. Clear as a bell with a volume range that can't be beat.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
It's got slight finish check and a couple of nicks that you'd have to know where they are to find them. I guess the finish would be called a tobacco sunburst. Setup couldn't be better and I adjusted the pickups to perfection for my taste in sound.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
These old Harmony guitars are truly built like tanks. They're meant to be played and the years don't change that one bit.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
This one's a keeper. It's become my "go to" guitar. We get along really well. I play a 1965 Harmony Master f-hole acoustic that I also love, but in a different way, and a 1997 Gibson Les Paul Studio that is an altogether very different guitar that I use mainly for the harder rock stuff. You definitely won't see many H-71's and probably won't see another in this condition.
