Your Grandpa's Guitar

1959 Harmony Meteor H70 Electric Hollowbody Guitar

Here we have a 1959 Harmony Meteor single cutaway hollowbody guitar with Dearmond gold tone pickups(not gold foil as we discussed in the previous post).

This was the second year of production for this model as harmony began producing the H70 in 1958 and continued production in this form until around 1966.   This guitar has the woodiest(making up words here) tone I have ever heard.  The Dearmond Gold Tone pickups sound great and make this guitar a rockabilly riot.

The neck is fast and easy to play.  It is also slim, which leaves me in a bit of a conundrum - I love the sound of this guitar, but have always been a fan or thicker/meatier necks.  I've never been a fast player, so slim and fast never meant much to me.  This is definitely more of a players guitar as it is a little banged up in spots.  A previous owner had dropped it on the input jack area which created a bunch of cracks that seem stable for now.  No worries - she still sounds and plays good.

The good news is this guitar is all original and after benefiting from a little setup it will play as well as it did the day she came out of the factory.  It's hard to call any Harmony guitar rare as The Harmony Company pushed out millions of guitars from their factory, but you don't see that many Meteors around.  When this guitar was new it was advertised at a price of $170.00 which seems like a pretty penny for 1959.  That would make it one of their top of the line models for the year.

If you would like more info on just about any Harmony model out there, you need to check out   harmony.demont.net

This is an amazing site of info and pics that will allow you to date just about any harmony product you may have.  A lot of hard work went into this site and we are lucky to have it as a resource.