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#Lyle guitars serial numbers how to#

Q - My guitar has only 4 strings! A - So it's a tenor guitar! You can visit How to Date a Guild GuitarД¬heck the tenor family here in the database to see many Harmony made tenor guitars. Please do not contact me about parts, I'm not a seller. A more efficient way would be to register and ask to the Harmony discussion board. For generic guitar parts and tools, well-known web sites include Stewmac and Allparts. You can check 'tom' for repro pickguards, and 'Harmony12X5' for some parts. Ebay auction site is the main provider for rare parts, but you need to monitor the offers each day Some ebay sellers are known for Harmony parts.

#Lyle guitars serial numbers professional#

Photos below : solid wood on an acoustic H, laminated on an electric H58 Q - Where can I buy parts for my Harmony restoration? A - No known professional is specialized in Harmony parts only. An exception to those rules is the late H68 'Artist', built from acoustic H bodies, all solid. Older 'full box' archtops designed from acoustic models still were made from solid woods. Ok, there is some rare exceptions to this rule, for some very late models produced a couple of years before the close of the factory in Kay was known for mastering the laminated techniques, Harmony for using only solid wooods.

Q - Is my Harmony guitar made from solid woods or laminated?ДЄ - If your guitar is an acoustic, please read this and tell everyone about it : ALL Harmony acoustics were made from solid woods, even the lowest of the lower grade student model, made from solid birch. In other words, if this guitar looks like a Meteor H70, it's a Meteor H70, no matter what's the stamped number inside. As they were building similar models on the same line at the same time, we often see this kind of glitches between the model and the stamped number. They were used to keep together various parts of the same guitar on the assembly line. Do you think someone added the Meteor Label on the Headstock? A - These stamped numbers inside Harmony made guitars were not intended as real serial numbers. The Harmony Meteor label is on the head stock.

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Q - My brother has a Harmony Meteor in great shape but the the serial number is 84H From what I have gathered on your site this indicates that it is an Airline.

I even checked a couple of guitars with double date stamps, one was stamped and Either they re-used a back prepared for the previous batch, two years before on the line, or they mistakenly used a stamp in It looks like Harmony serial and date stamps were meant to manage the different parts and instruments on the production line, not to be used as reference by collectors 50 years later Keep this in mind when identifying! They were made on the same assembly line at the factory, and of course the body was the same before routing the holes. A - Yes, it's definitely not rare to see 'misprints' serial stamps inside Harmony guitars, between similar models. However, it seems to be a H All pictures that we have seen have identified it as a H Its very weird and I'm wondering if there was ever any rumors of misprints in the serial numbers.