- Select models of their acoustic guitars were made of high quality all solid woods. Established in 1892, Harmony produced more instruments than any other company until the mid 1970’s. Select models of their acoustic guitars were made of high quality all solid woods. Harmony Sovereign H1203 (rebuilt) $749 Circa 1967 Harmony Stella H912.
- Sep 15, 2017 Flattop guitars consisted of Folk models that had ladder bracing and sometimes steel-reinforced necks, and Classic models that included the Sovereign, with its triangular-shaped pick guard. Stamps If you look through the f-hole or sound hole of a Harmony guitar, you will see two stamps.
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There are some who say Harmony Sovereign guitars should stay ladder braced. They say that ladder bracing is just as good as an X-braced or a V-braced guitar. I suppose this is debatable one way or the other, although many proponents of ladder bracing have a ladder braced guitar to sell you.
Vintage Harmony Sovereign in great condition. All solid wood. The unique body shape is similar to a mini jumbo, giving this guitar a beautiful warm tone. Check out our video on youtube about Harmony guitars. Harmony was also using this bridge on the smaller auditorium size (roughly 000) H1203. String spacing is a generous 57 mm from E to E, wide enough to easily fingerpick. The saddle has been compensated for a perfect intonation all the way up the neck.
I’ll go for new hide glued X- or V- bracing any day.
Other than enhanced tone quality there is another reason to re-brace (and restore). See images below.
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This H1260 is typical of most Sovereigns that we work on. If the braces were installed with the 60’s version of polyvinyl acetate (PVA) glue, the braces are now barely sticking to the top. On the guitar below, I was able to pull two of the braces out with no tool at all. The braces basically fell out. The others took only a bit more of a tug with a pair of pliers to remove and that was only because they were tucked under the liner blocks (kerfing). Note the very minimal glue residue on the top. This is typical of the Sovereigns we work on. Also note the very minimal reinforcing plate still stuck to the top. That is an invitation to brige roll and top deformation.
We restore the best sounding Harmony guitars on the internet. And our guitars hold their own against any other brand in terms of sound quality.
When we finish this restoration, this Sovereign will have new bracing, a new very hard and dry maple reinforcing plate, all cracks repaired (if any), a new rosewood pin bridge (to match the fret board), lovely new ivoroid or ebony pins and matching end pin, new frets, bone nut and saddle, and new fully functional smooth working tuners. For the price, it’s a bargain.
We include instructions for Harmonic tuning. Can you do that with a ladder braced guitar?
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Harmony Sovereigns are very well worth restoring.
I think we found a way to roughly or approximately date Harmony Sovereign guitars. The serial numbers do not provide dating information. Sometimes, a date stamp is visible on the back through the sound hole. This does give an indication of year (’F’irst or ’S’second year half). So maybe this is helpful for Sovereigns without a date stamp.
Harmony Sovereign guitars made approximately after 1965 have a short spruce reinforcing plate like this:
Harmony Sovereign Guitar H1203
Harmony Sovereign guitars made approximately before 1965 have a long birch or spruce reinforcing plate like this:
We have seen enough Sovereigns to believe the foregoing is generally true for H1260 and H1203 guitars.
So to get some idea of how old your Harmony Sovereign is, just feel inside to see how long the reinforcing plate is. Iso 9001 management review meeting presentation template.
Harmony Sovereign Guitar
We don’t work on other Harmony models, so have no ideas about bracing in those models.
Sovereign Harmony Acoustic Guitar
By the way, you cannot just add a pin bridge to a Sovereign with a spruce reinforcing plate. Spruce is not strong enough to keep the bridge from spliting. This is why we always replace the spruce with Rock Maple. Not to mention the fact that X-bracing and the new plate makes the guitar sound much better.