- Harmony Sovereign Guitar Value
- Harmony Sovereign Guitar 1960's
- Harmony Sovereign Guitar Serial Numbers
H1270 - Sovereign jumbo 12 string
It’s the model H1270, which was THE great classic Harmony 12 string. It dates from the late 60s, early 70s. Several big name musicians have chosen to play this model (look at the Peter Townsend article below). If you check one of these beauties out you’ll know why Peter, among many others loved it so much. It is one cool instrument with a funky sound all it's own.
This one is made of all solid wood mahogany back and sides, spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and ladder braced. All very nice looking woods without a single crack. The back is a single piece of mahogany. The body is a small jumbo size 16” lower bout. There is some finish checking, normal for a guitar of this age.
The bridge is an obvious replacement. It’s fixed in place, not the floater this guitar would have had originally. I've had a different saddle put in which perfected the intonation all the way up the neck, making it a great players guitar. You won't find this handy feature on the original, older guitars.
The guitar has an amazingly comfortable feel to it with the narrow waist and the short neck. The fingerboard is 2” wide at the nut and although the neck is tad beefy the action - 3/32 at the 12th fret - makes the guitar is very easy to play.
Some of the tuners have extra play in them but they're quite functionable, keeping the guitar in perfect tune. The truss rod works too.
Serial Number: 9879H1203
This one is made of all solid wood mahogany back and sides, spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and ladder braced. All very nice looking woods without a single crack. The back is a single piece of mahogany. The body is a small jumbo size 16” lower bout. There is some finish checking, normal for a guitar of this age.
The bridge is an obvious replacement. It’s fixed in place, not the floater this guitar would have had originally. I've had a different saddle put in which perfected the intonation all the way up the neck, making it a great players guitar. You won't find this handy feature on the original, older guitars.
The guitar has an amazingly comfortable feel to it with the narrow waist and the short neck. The fingerboard is 2” wide at the nut and although the neck is tad beefy the action - 3/32 at the 12th fret - makes the guitar is very easy to play.
Some of the tuners have extra play in them but they're quite functionable, keeping the guitar in perfect tune. The truss rod works too.
Serial Number: 9879H1203
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Harmony Sovereign Guitar Value
Daddystovepipe plays and talks about his 'Harmony Sovereign' The Mance Lipscomb guitar - Duration: 14:37. Daddystovepipe 18,420 views. H55 Sovereign with neck pickup guitar made by Harmony - Pickup at the end of the fretboard - later was H655. Note the fretboard is longer, and soundhole is lowered if compared to the H1203 or other pure acoustics. Pickup looks like a variation of the P13 Gibson pickup. 3com homeconnect usb camera xp driver. 4 screws hold it in place (two each side of the fretboard). Later models have a DeArmond pickup held with 2 screws (one each.
Harmony Sovereign Guitar 1960's
Listen to the incredible tone of this guitar. It's one of the BEST 12 string guitars I've ever played!
Here is the original 'Care and Use' pamphlet that came with the guitar!!
Harmony Sovereign Guitar Serial Numbers
Here's Peter Townsend of The Who posing with the very same model with a different pickguard. This Harmony 12-string that became Peter's staple, go to guitar in the sixties and seventies. Peter was a huge fan of Leadbelly, and the Harmony was as close as he could get to Leadbelly's big Stella. You can see more pics of Pete and read the story of his love for this guitar here:
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/harmony12.html
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/harmony12.html