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Old 06-10-2022, 07:58 PM
Steve DeRosa Steve DeRosa is offline
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Harmony's entry-level Archtone line had a similar model, the "blonde-ivory" H1214, which at $27.50 retail was a student mainstay when I was taking lessons in the early-60's and, unlike many such instruments, was made of all-solid woods (birch in this case). If you knew how to finesse them they could be great little boxes - not a lot of complexity but plenty of cutting power for either lead or rhythm work - and it's a shame so many of them succumbed to the ravages of the old "black box" New Brunswick (NJ) Black Diamond strings. Here's a pic of an excellent-plus condition late example from 1964, the next-to-last year of production (the pickguard is probably a replacement, in fact typical of the upscale Broadway model, and they had just gone over to the dreaded plastic adjustable floating bridge ):

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