From 1962, some processes - final assembly, inspection, and shipping - was moved to plant 2, about a mile away (bottom right). Harmony had been producing instruments in America since 1892, and used a number of different premises in Chicago, however from 1940 instrument production was performed at the Racine Avenue factory (plant 1, top right).

Harmony Chicago guitar plants 1 and 2, opened in 19 respectively By inspectors who know that Harmony's heritage of fine instrument making depends on how carefully they check each detail of adjustment and playability before the name Harmony may be affixed to the instrument

By experienced finishers, who give thoroughgoing individual care to each instrument as it passes through their hands By skilled craftsmen fully trained in innumerable precision hand operations - and the use of most modern equipment- for that closeness-to-perfection which is our constant goal So you can be sure that, while every Harmony instrument has the same basic characteristics for which all Harmony products are noted, each individual instrument has had dozens of man hours devoted just to it alone They were slow, however, in committing to the solid body market although they released the H44 Stratotone neck-through solid body in 1952, it was gone by 1957, and there were only hollow bodies until the release of the Silhouette in 1963. This long history of instrument manufacture explains why Harmony had the expertise to produce so many well-built acoustic and hollow-body electric instruments guitars like the Meteor and Rocket were very well received. Btw.it was obtained from a working professional, was his main stage git for many years and was letting it go since getting a high-end Rainsong.1966 Harmony advertisement featuring the H76 thinline semi acoustic, the H19 solid body electric and the 1260 flat-top acousticР”В«ut Harmony produced a lot of instruments other than guitars: ukuleles, banjos, mandolins, violins etc the company was proud of it's history, proudly American, and as proud of its skilled workforce, as it's use of modern technology 'We've produced millions of instruments but we make them one at a time'. Its not as intimate but it more than makes up for it in all other areas. Nothing neededРІР‚В¦it is solid, substantially louder, and will hold its own with any all hog 14 fret Taylor, Martin or Gibson. Right H165, $250, neck reset, new steel non adj truss rod epoxied in, jumbo frets w/o wear, neck is straight as an arrow, substantial and solid neck), bone nut, over-sized Р’СРІР‚Сњ thick bone saddle with brass pins, new tuners and installed Duncan performer p/u. Middle H162 (Barclay lable), $160, neck reset, pin bridge, frets leveled.bone nut and compensated saddle on order.$10, much like the above but a tad brighter, articulate and more volumeРІР‚В¦but not as responsive and warm. Left H165, $150, neck reset, new frets, bridge and tuners.needed a saddle/diy $5 compensated bone saddleРІР‚В¦very sweet, intimate and responsive.not a lot of volume and easily overdriven.really great couch guitar. These Harmonys were recently obtained off CL in player condition (very good action and intonation) with work already done and imho very reasonable $.considering the old wood, ladder bracing and 50+ years of mojo.perhaps some of the best bargains out there.

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