H1215T - Archtone tenor
Acoustic archtop - Sunburst
Production year(s) : 1956-1971 (other years possible, not verified)

Tenor version (4 string, tuned CGDA) of the H1215 (6 strings). All birch construction.

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Top wood	Birch
Body wood	Birch
All solid woods

Width	15"7/8	404 mm
Length	37"1/8	943 mm
Body depth	3"3/8	87 mm
Scale	23"	583 mm
Neck at nut	1"1/4	32.4 mm
Neck at 12th	1"1/2	38.4 mm

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• Eli - 2007-03-26
  I just recently purchased a Fall, 1965 tenor while on a trip to Emporia, KS. I felt like I got a good deal, and the axe plays and sounds amazing. I must say it is a truly unique little instrument (well, except that there were obviously more than one made, but how often do you see one of these?). The craftsmanship and finish of the body really stand out from every angle. There is a crack in the pickguard, but everything except the strings is original. :-)
• Fishy - 2007-11-12
  Try tuning your Harmony tenor guitar to an open slide tuning like CGCG and play with or without slide and jam some dirty blues!
• wobblyman - 2010-06-02
  I just picked up a Fall 61 Harmony Tenor- thanks for this site, it was a great way for me to verify that my guitar was stock.
  Mine was 399.00 in Portland, Oregon and it is all stock and plays great !
• saxistJack - 2010-09-04
  I bought one of these from a guy on Craigslist. Turned it into my favorite gigging version of my own development, the STRUMBOLA.
  Strumbola tuning differs from that of traditional Tenor Guitar. Instead of four strings tuned in fifths -c g d a-, Strumbola uses six strings with the two middle courses doubled an octave below, and beginning a note higher -d fF abAb b-
  
  To do this I drilled a couple more string holes in the tailpiece, added two more Shallers to the headstock, and notched the nut & bridge in second and third courses for the 'octave below' additions.
  If I need to amp it, I use my saxophone bell (clip-on-mini-gooseneck) AKG mic clipped to the lower edge of the tailpiece. That makes the mic head float just above the body right between the bridge and the f hole... feed back not a problem.
  Another thing, the chording of a Strumbola tuned instrument is such that it is necessarily played primarily with the flat parts of the finges, not the fingertips... no more calouses!
  Try strapping minor thirds across your Tenor, or any Four Course stringed inst, like Octave Mando, etc. and see how the chords seem to grow themselves from the diminished chord barre on up.
  all the best,
  Jack