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Family : Stratotone solid body

Other brands : H88 Stratotone was also sold as Alden 9910 solidbody

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Original catalog descriptions

[1955 catalog]
Stratotone Doublet - Professional double pickup electric guitar - Solid body, cutaway style.
Designed to meet the professional standard of tone quality, featuring modern dual pickups. Forward pickup for rythm - bridge pickup for lead or solo. Separate "stack-mounted" controls can be preset. 3-position switch permits quick change from one pickup to another, or use of both. Solid hardwood easy-to-handle body. Highly polished black lacquer finish. Ovalled ebonized bound fingerboard, inlay block position markers. Nickel plated machine heads, compensating tailpiece. Plastic guitar strap included.
H88 : $119.50. C88 carrying case, Hard shell, $23.00.

[1957 catalog]
STRATOTONE DOUBLET
DOUBLE PICK-UP ELECTRIC... SOLID BODY, CUTAWAY STYLE
Designed to meet professional standards of tone quality, featuring modern dual pickups, each with tone and volume controls, and pickup selector switch. Forward pickup for rhythm - bridge pickup for take-off or solo. Highly polished black lacquer finish. Ovalled ebonized bound fingerboard, inlaid block position markers. Nickel plated machine heads, compensating tailpiece. Plastic guitar strap included.
H88 Guitar $142.50 - C88 Carrying Case, Hard Shell $30.00

Original price

  1955 : $119.50
  1956 : $134.50
  1957 : $142.50

Verified production year(s) : 1955-1957
others years possible, not verified.

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• jerry - 2005-11-25
  i have one of these--and could send pix----
• jerry - 2005-11-25
  i have one of these--and could send pix----
  jwkippola@chartermi.net
• Splatotone - 2006-07-05
  I've had one of these, but much prefer the H-44's (bigger neck) I've had. Currently, my main S-tone is a beater 44 that I've added a bridge p.u. to (I've managed to find a few of these p.u.s). Made an H-88 style pickguard, and added a switch. With the front p.u. sounding like an old archtop, and the bridge p.u. sounding like a cross between the best of L.P. jr. and Tele tones, I can take this gtr to ANY gig.