Hi folks,
I couldn't resist this, especially after seeing Sheryl Crow play one of what looks like the laminate '50s or '60s Harmonys in her present to Ringo Starr for his 80th birthday.
The price was right on eBay, though I knew it had at least one problem (cracked) tuning peg, C string. (The fluorocarbon strings weren't original, but they weren't new, either! Felt like plastic, though I knew they weren't.)
Turns out a previous owner just superglued pieces of the tuning button right to the screw. When I put on new strings and tuned it up, the button had started separating and buzzed.
So I removed the old tuners, threw on a set of Grover 3Ws I had lying around (after reaming the tuning holes a bit), and it's going to sound great once the new strings settle. Action is spot-on. The plastic fretboard is just fine, as is the one-piece wood saddle/bridge.
These critters are light as a feather and very well put together. Harmony deserves a lot of love for continuing to hand-build entry-level instruments in the U.S. long after other places had moved their operations overseas.
More photos here:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipPvKHiA9YINQS3HjwwCZjIltaQYF8goLDEU_JvI
I couldn't resist this, especially after seeing Sheryl Crow play one of what looks like the laminate '50s or '60s Harmonys in her present to Ringo Starr for his 80th birthday.
The price was right on eBay, though I knew it had at least one problem (cracked) tuning peg, C string. (The fluorocarbon strings weren't original, but they weren't new, either! Felt like plastic, though I knew they weren't.)
Turns out a previous owner just superglued pieces of the tuning button right to the screw. When I put on new strings and tuned it up, the button had started separating and buzzed.
So I removed the old tuners, threw on a set of Grover 3Ws I had lying around (after reaming the tuning holes a bit), and it's going to sound great once the new strings settle. Action is spot-on. The plastic fretboard is just fine, as is the one-piece wood saddle/bridge.
These critters are light as a feather and very well put together. Harmony deserves a lot of love for continuing to hand-build entry-level instruments in the U.S. long after other places had moved their operations overseas.
More photos here:
https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipPvKHiA9YINQS3HjwwCZjIltaQYF8goLDEU_JvI
