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Family : Silhouette

Other brands : H19 Silhouette was also sold as Alden 9213 | Holiday AL9213 | Silvertone S1478

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Original catalog description

[1966 catalog]
Silhouette Solid body electric guitar

- Profile styled for beauty and ease of playing.
- Modern design and DeArmond electronics for speed and response, to give you what you want for today's music and playing style !
- With famous "Slim Line" neck, "Ultra Slim" fingerboard, and Torque Lok adjustable dual reinforcing rods. Short scale for easy chording.

H19 De Luxe double pickup - Advanced vibrato
Larger (than the H14-H15-H17) and a truly professional model. The free form profile - designed for your comfort - is enriched by hansome polished Cherry Red finish. Fingerboard is ovalled rosewood, with inlays and binding. 7 pearlette position markers, corresponding side dots - 16 frets clear of the body - easy to finger. Strings are modern flat wound, quiet, smooth for fingering comfort. Has one of the finest dual pickups, with individual magnetic polepieces under each string, for the most accurate adjustments. Precisely engineered Type H Vibrato-Tailpiece will sustain your plkaying with beautiful vibrato effects. 6-way adjustable metal bridge helps you to achieve precise and accurate tuning. Indeed a "top of the line" model.
H19 - 13 1/4 in. wide, 39 1/4 in long, 1 1/2 in. deep : $177.50
C19 Carrying case, extra : $21.00

Original price

  1967 : $177.50

Verified production year(s) : 1964
others years possible, not verified.

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• Ben - 2006-01-01
  I have one of these H19's, and they are some of the best sounding guitars i've ever heard! I found mine at a garage sale for $30, and i've restored it to it's origional condition, and kept everything original except the knobs, which i replaced with some knurled steel ones, and it still plays beautifully! One of the best made!!!
• Harpin Stevie B - 2006-02-12
  Hello,
  I just bought an H19, really beat up but I brought her back and replaced the tremelo arm with a Fender one. I tapped the hole where the original set screw was and it fit beautifully.Excellent guitar, dated March 1966. One month before I was born!
  Steve Brown
• John L. - 2006-03-28
  This guitar is also a very pro guitar! The Hagstrom tail vibrato stays in tune and the sustain is unreal! I am a rhythm guitar player though, and this does not work for me for rhythm playing. BUT if you are a lead guitarist this is your baby!! I have some friends who could not put it down-it is a great sounding instrament...John
• mojowyrkn@aol.com - 2006-06-30
  i bought one of these babies years ago for $80, and she has proven herself over and over---she rules on wahwah funketry---what can be done about deteriorating pick-ups?
• ricardo - 2006-11-21
  i loves my "new" h-19, got it all fixed up. shape and feel is so nice. some say the neck is overly thick but i like it, plays easy & sustains forever! right now i'm playing through an old noisey heath kit amp, but i'm gonna ditch it for a fender twin at some point.
• ricardo - 2006-12-09
  oh yeah, i should say that the tuners on mine were shot, so i had my local shop put a set of new grover deluxe tuners in (vintage-style ones w/ the closed box around the tuner). they said the spacing of the holes was not standard, and not just any set of tuners would fit. i would recomend this.
• sikkelee - 2007-05-08
  i found this guitar under the stairs at my grandpas house and pick it up and started to play it ..its awsome! its sounds so smoth it still has the original strings, knobs, pick ups , everything! and not 1 scrach on it im glad he gave it to me haha
• alex - 2007-07-02
  just bought this off of my friend for 200$. worth every cent in my book. the tone can be so sad at times, its really flawless. the pickups are great (but completely unsheilded). I wish sheilding them didnt mean taking out the rivets and thus ruining the collectability.
• cooley - 2007-07-04
  i had one of these in 1969 and sold it in the 70's. i would sure love to have it back :)
• Chris Christiansen - 2008-02-22
  This was my very first electric guitar. When my family moved to London, England in 1964, I acquired a Vox AC 30 combo amp that had been traded in by the Hollies at Jennings Musical Supply for a Vox AC 100 stage amp. Loved my little Harmony. Don't remember what I did with it over the years. I've since owned (and lost) many fine guitars, but will always remember that little solidbody. Too bad I didn't appreciate it more when I was younger. Now I have a Vox AC 100 (big amp), but no Harmony. Oh well............
• cjonesplay - 2008-04-01
  This was my first guitar, handed down to me by my father. I always hated the way the saddle pieces would never stay on the bridge (the screws fell out, too) and the pickups hummed horribly. It never stayed in tune and broke strings like crazy. The perfect guitar to pay your dues on! That being said, it's probably the reason I ended up becoming a musician (that, and Hendrix's Third Stone From the Sun). My dad always said he could have just spent $50 more and bought a Fender Mustang - he probably should have.
  A friend of mine "borrowed" this guitar, and I got it back 7 years later after his mom cleaned out their recently flooded basement. The fingerboard seperated from the neck completely, the tuners were rusted beyond repair, and the body suffered innumerable damages which I don't need to go into. I took the whole thing apart, and now it sits in my garage waiting for a miracle to happen. This guitar and I definitely have a love/hate relationship - thanks to this site for helping me bring back the memories.
• mimaxa_lb - 2008-05-11
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