Harmony Guitar America's Guitar
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A LOOK AT AMERICA'S MOST ICONIC GUITAR IT'S PLAYERS-HISTORY &
WORLDWIDE FASCINATION-BUYING & SELLING FOR THE MUSICIAN
BACKGROUND-COLOR: #FFFFFF;\">HI MY NAME IS JIM GALLOWAY I'M A
PUBLISHED(NASHVILLE) SONGWRITER AND PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN AFTER
FINDING A VINTAGE HARMONY GUITAR AT A YARD SALE, I REMEMBERED HARMONY
WAS MY FIRST GUITAR. I FOUND THAT HARMONY WAS THE FIRST GUITAR OF
AMERICA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS AND THE ROLE THEY PLAYED IN THE
CULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICA. FROM THE DELTA BLUES TO
ELVIS & DYLAN, HARMONY GUITARS ARE VALUED BY TODAYS ARTISTS &
COLLECTORS OF AMERICANA FOR THEIR COOL RETRO LOOKS & SOUND. I MADE A
SMALL BUSINESS ON EBAY SELLING VINTAGE HARMONY GUITARS WORLDWIDE.
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Thats _ELVIS COSTELLO _playing his_ HARMONY SILVERTONE 1446_ along
with the late great _LEVON HELM _and musicians Hubert Sumilin and
Jimmie ViVino.
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FINDING-IDENTIFYING-BUYING & SELLING THE MANY MODELS OF VINTAGE
ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC STRINGED AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE
HARMONY COMPANY. A COMPLETE GUIDE TO USING EBAY TO MEET THE WORLD'S
THIRST FOR TRUE AMERICANA.
* The History and Timeline of Harmony Guitar Company
* What Hot-Whats Not (For Collectors & Musicians)
* Finding & Identifying the many Models produced over the last
century
* Other Harmony Musical Instruments
* Lap steel- Amps-Bass guitars & Banjo
* The Popular Harmony Silvertone & Teisco Brands
* Using Ebay to buy and Sell Vintage Guitars
* Pricing-Parts-Basic Maintenance to double your investment
* America's Pop Culture Belongs to the World
* Countries like France-Japan & Austrailia have an endless demand
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The history of the Harmony guitar is the history of modern music.
Bluesmen like Son House,Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters used cheap
catalogue Harmony guitars as the tools of trade to bring the birth of
Blues music from the Crossroads & Delta regions down south to the
world. Then later, American Country, Bluegrass, Folk & Rock Genre
players did the same. American Pop culture was developed.
Harmony Guitar America's Guitar will give you step by step
instructions on dating and identifying vintage acoustic & electric
models. Database information and simple tricks to use to transform
that worn out guitar and make it new for your personal collection or
for resale. I'll tell you where to find hardware,wiring diagrams and
pickups like these _GOLD DEARMONDS_ that are correct for the type of
guitar you found.
Sears & Roebuck of Chicago aquired the Harmony Guitar Company in 1916
to capitalize on the growing interest of the guitar. The Sears
catalogue put stringed instruments in the hands of poor folks around
the country.
The Harmony Archtop, Flattop Acoustic and Electric instruments along
Harmony Mandolin, Banjo, Steel guitar and others bought through mail
order catalogues like Sears & Roebuck were mass produced at the birth
of America's Industrial Revolution and enabled musicians like Delta
Blues Bottleneck Slide originator Charley Patton or Robert Johnson,
John Lee Hooker and to purchase them in remote areas of the country.
The rest is history.
_RAY DAVIES OF THE KINKS FAME WITH HIS HARMONY METEOR ELECTRIC_
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THE HARMONY MONTEREY VINTAGE ARCHTOP H-1457 CIRCA 1961
The Harmony Archtops were unique and beautiful . They held up through
the years and make great collector instruments. Find them in attics or
at flea markets, garage sales. Not the Gibson or Martin of their day
but affordable to average folks like _RITCHIE VALENS & JOHNNY CASH __
during _pre and post WW11, who had little money and could order it
through mail catalogues. In the 50's & 60's they were everyones
first-student guitar. Today, Harmony instruments and Amplifiers are in
big demand around the world for thier cool-retro-looks- Collectability
& playability.
After all one man's trash is another man's treasure.
CATCH THE WAVE OF VINTAGE GUITAR COLLECTING BUYING & SELLING. Harmony
guitars are in huge demand by people who want to own an authentic
piece of Americana. You don't need to be a player to appreciate the
important role they played in the growth of America. Harmony guitars
went to war with the Greatest Generation and became the student guitar
for their children when they returned. Some Harmony guitars stayed in
Europe and became the student guitar for their kids like _THE ROLLING
STONES _who created their sound that would cross back over the
Atlantic and make musical history.
_CHRIS ISAAK'S ULTRA-COOL HARMONY SILVERTONE_
If you know what Harmony guitars to look for the payoff could be
great. Although mass produced, I'll show you some acoustic and
electric guitars that are rare and sought after by music artist &
collectors. This _HARMONY SOVEREIGN _was the guitar that_ LED
ZEPPLIN'S JIMMIE PAGE USED FOR THE INTRO TO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN_. A lot
of Harmony guitars were sold under different brands and companies,
some are not even listed in their database. It makes collecting
Harmony guitars more exciting. Like hunting for buried treasure.
\"I USED THIS BOOK AND WAS ABLE TO BUY AND SELL VINTAGE GUITARS ON
EBAY\" RON
See what our customers had to say: "I loved this book. Collecting
Vintage guitars was never affordable. I could never buy Gibson or
Martins guitars the prices were too far out of reach. Harmony guitars
are ultra-cool with endless amount of models-they look fantastic on
stage and up on my wall at home. Besides the historical value Harmony
Guitar are living pieces of American Pop Culture"
Ron Bogush
Musician-Guitar collector I was able to find vintage guitars at yard
sales and flea markets- clean them up and sell them on EBay for profit
Ron
Musician
"I fell in love with their collectability, retro-look, sound and
feel of these instruments. They represent Americana in the true sense
of the word. Country-Blues-Jazz-Bluegrass and Rock are American forms
of music but are extremley popular all over Asia and places like
France and Australia,where Rockabilly is making a comeback. Vintage
Harmony guitars represent all those popular genres and are the choice
of collectors and musicians anywhere the internet which is the (SEARS
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THE RETRO COOL DESIGNS OF HARMONY GUITAR ARE ADDICTING AND MAKE
VINTAGE GUITARS AVAILABLE TO MOST OF US WHO DON'T DRIVE A MERCEDES.
THEY ARE A TANGABLE RECORD OF OUR COUNTRY'S CULTURAL & INSUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION. EVERY GUITAR TELLS A STORY OF US.
"_the next time you make it down to Memphis stop by Sun Studio,Stax
and the Rock&Soul museum downtown or Graceland you'll see Harmony
Guitars displayed as tools of trade in the history of Blues & Rock'N
Roll"_ Jim Galloway
See what our customers had to say: "My interest is Americana.I look
for all thing that repesent the culture of this great
country-antiques-artifacts-instruments and art. this is a great
referance book"
Monica Murphy
Accountant-Weekend Treasure Hunter
\"ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE\"
If you are a baby-boomer like me and remember when Music-Cars-Art
made a statement of who we were. American Pop Culture and the
Industrial Revolution won't ever happen again. What we wore, what we
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