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04-19-2010, 11:27 PM
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Is getting a stella acoustic worth it?
  I can get it for pretty much dirt cheap. I think it's a genuine stella, before harmony bought them out. It has a crack on the front of the guitar, down the left side when looking at the picture. What do you guys think is it even worth considering? Thanks 
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04-19-2010, 11:29 PM
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Cool novelty item, imo.
If dirt cheap was in the double figures, I'd snag it.
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04-19-2010, 11:32 PM
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Well let's just say it's under 50 bucks
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04-20-2010, 03:19 AM
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Kinda clunky as players. My 6 year old likes beating on one.
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04-20-2010, 05:54 AM
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It's a Harmony Stella. Looks like a H929 to me, see :
http://harmony.demont.net/guitars/H929/239.htm
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04-20-2010, 06:44 AM
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This is the first guitar I learned on. It was so difficult to play its amazing I even continued playing guitar. They were very poorly made and very cheap learners guitars. In terms of value, I'd put it in the camp of value as a wall hanging, rather than in the musical instrument camp. If its worth the money to hang on the wall, say in a music room, buy it.
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04-20-2010, 07:27 AM
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now that there is such a thing as the john how ladder braced guitar those searching a true vintage sound have a altar to worship at
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04-20-2010, 07:32 AM
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I have Stella "second" from the early 1970s, which is getting pretty far down the list of collectable instruments
 The guitar is ladder-braced with birch top, back, and sides. There is glue everywhere in sight inside (hence the reason, I presume, that it was classified as a "second"), and the Stella insignia has been painted over, though you can still see it in just the right light. It cost the grand sum of $25, and the amazing thing is, when tuned to open G or open D, it can produce a fairly interesting, thunky sound that seems to go with certain kinds of old-timey songs. As I understand it, these Harmony-made Stellas are a far cry from the really wonderful old ladder-braced guitars from the 1920s and 1930s.
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04-20-2010, 07:40 AM
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I agree: this is a Harmony "Stella." Finding an original Stella as in a Robert Johnson/Leadbelly-era guitar would be very difficult, and VERY expensive. This looks almost identical to my first guitar, faux-burst and tailpiece included. It is not IMO a pre-Harmony Stella. Sorry.
They make great little bluesy, old-timey gits. I bought one almost like it about 9 years ago, and it actually had decent action and with a new set of lights, sounded pretty cool. But I didn't really need it--and bought it mainly to loan out to beginners at church. I donated it to a Hispanic Ministry development ministry in our county. If you can get this for like 20 bucks or so, and like it's "vibe," go for it!   
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04-20-2010, 11:43 AM
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"Poorly made" for a beginner's guitar? Considering how many are still out there, I have to roll my eyes on that one. Yeah, they sound bad, and they look cooler in pictures than in real life (you think that's real pearl or abalone on the fret board?), but for a guitar that was about as cheap as you could get to be that durable? It makes me wish the US still manufactured most of the low-end market.
Get it, enjoy it, and don't look back.
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