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Other brands : H76 3 pickup was also sold as Airline 7280

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Original catalog description

[1966 catalog]
Harmony's Finest Electric Guitars - with maximum electronics
Three pickups... DeArmond designed for Today's Sound

- "Double Cutaway" - 16 frets clear of body - the highest registers easily fingered.
- "Ultra-Slim" narrow fingerboard - Short scale for easy chording.
- "Ultra-Slim" neck - with adjustable TORQUE-LOCK reinforcing rod. Unfiform "feel" throughout.
- Modern Flat Wound Strings - Quiet - Smooth for fingering comfort

Will be played with pride by the most experienced performer ! Truly precision instruments, finely adjusted befor leaving the factory. The top quality electronics in the triple pickup give brilliant and flexible response. Silent action switches permit selection of any of 7 combinations of pickup heads. Individual adjusting pole-pieces under each strings, on each pickup, permit the most critical adjustment for emphasis and balance response.

Ovalled rosewood fingerboard has 8 large inlaid position markers. Individual tuning keys have metal buttons ; headpiece is engraved ; ornamental taipiece is modern design, chrome plated. This guitar is also avalaible with Bigsby True Vibrato Tailpiece.

The geaming polished finishes on the curly maple Ultra-Thin arched bodies are in keeping with the professional quality of these models - Harmony's finest.

H76 - With Bigsby True Vibrato Tailpiece. Rich brown mahogany shading with sunburst effect. Size 15 3/4 x 40 1/2. Rim 2 inches deep : $300.00. C70 Carrying case, keratol, plush lined : $24.00.

Original price

  1966 : $300.00
  1967 : $300.00
  1969 : $325.00

Verified production year(s) : 1965-1972
others years possible, not verified.

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• John Meacham - 2005-11-02
  I have a Harmony H 76 but it does not have the bigsby tail piece it is a four bar tailpiece and is pictured in an advert page 72 of the 1993 issue of the Vintage guitar magazine, price guide any ideas of the value now. E mail me at meachams@eastlink.ca thanks
• Grzdy Johnson - 2007-07-06
  I played one of these about 1972-74 in the Birmingham area (UK) in a blues trio called 'Fatty'. I was longing for a strat back then so I sold it on to get one. I have good memories of it. Fine neck, good for fast blues phrasing. Good 'nasal' sound from the p/u's. I was playing it through an AC30, and in small places, when we played loud, there were feedback problems which I finally got over by stuffing the body cavity with cotton wool. I still use the 335-style guitar (though now I do use a strat & a tele as my main axes). I've been by the Epiphone 'Sheraton', and currently own an old Epiphone 'Dot' 335 ("elitist"). I'd like to get hold of an old H75 again. I reckon it had a 'gretsch-y' tone.
  Grady
  ankhclvi@gmail.com
• Boogie Mike - 2007-11-15
  I actually own two of these... the tobacco H-76, and one of these babies that has been re-branded as a Silvertone! The only major differences are the lack of a tortoise-shell cap on the headstock and the "lower end" DeArmond pickups without the adjustable pole pieces. Oddly enough, inside the treble-side F-hole, this guitar is stamped as an "H77" model... but its got the Bigsby... Guess they changed their minds afterward? hahaha...