![]() The Airline doesn’t have the funky shmoltzy plastic Sovereign headstock overlay (which often comes unglued or deteriorates), but a simple and elegant silk-screened logo. The saddle has been compensated for a perfect intonation all the way up the neck. String spacing is a generous 57 mm from E to E, wide enough to easily fingerpick. Harmony was also using this bridge on the smaller auditorium size (roughly 000) H1203. It’s a very elegant design made out of Brazilian Rosewood. ![]() The bridge on the Airline version has a smaller footprint than the Harmony version, which ‘might’ help the tone a bit (see how the J45 and J50 from the late 1940′ are more desirable when they carry the small rectangular bridge Vs. Only difference is the bridge and the headstock logo. More power to them! The body shape is somewhat like a Martin dreadnought body with large waist, but rounder at the upper bout, reminiscent of a round-shoulder Gibson.Īctually, this one is labeled Airline and was sold through the mail order giant Montgomery Ward, but it’s basically the very same model as the H1260. ![]() ![]() It features the large “jumbo” body, 16″ wide at the lower bout.Īs usual with Harmony, they were not trying to copy anyone else, but make their own thing. Here we have a super clean, crack-free example of Harmony’s flagship acoustic model: the Sovereign H1260. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2023
Categories |