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Some of the Mosrite "tone talk" has gotten me curious for a second back up
guitar
that's not a Stratocaster. My folks have my first electric a 60s' Harmony
Silhouette
stashed away. I'll have them bring it down with my Bassman 10 (they are sooo
cool),
hope they have room for their bags...Anyway, I'm going to fix it up and put some
flats
on it. For $30 a set of strings, the strings are worth more than the guitar, but
it
sounded pretty cool from what I can remember...errrh...did it?...It did have a
few
million runs of "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Wipe Out" on it.
Have any of you played any of these Harmony knock offs of the Jag? No tremolo
unit,
but has the DeArmond gold, radiator looking pickups. Unlike the Mosrites, the
neck
on this thing is like a baseball bat.
This site shows pictures of the same model.
sunburst%202-pickup%201966/
I am glad to see this topic come up. I just blindly bought one of these on
ebay recently and although I was not sure what to expect I am enjoying it a
lot so far. The one I picked up is the high end model (H19) and has a
Hagstom (sp?) tremolo, dearmonds pick-ups with the adjustable pole pieces
and some other cosmetic enhancements (e.g. block peal inlay markers). I
believe otherwise is similar body and neck wise to the one you have.
The guitar has a pretty short scale neck (around 24 inches) and I got it set
up with 11 round wounds when I got it. I dont really understand it but even
though there does not seem to be any fret buzz, as you play up the neck the
sound seems to increasingly deaden...any idea what this could be? The tech
was not sure but thought it might be the cheap nut and/or bridge. Do you
think heavier strings or flat wounds might help?
Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!
Here is some additional info on the silhouette...
Thanks, William
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Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Harmony Silhouette
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:26:43 -0000
Some of the Mosrite "tone talk" has gotten me curious for a second back up
guitar
that's not a Stratocaster. My folks have my first electric a 60s' Harmony
Silhouette
stashed away. I'll have them bring it down with my Bassman 10 (they are sooo
cool),
hope they have room for their bags...Anyway, I'm going to fix it up and put
some flats
on it. For $30 a set of strings, the strings are worth more than the guitar,
but it
sounded pretty cool from what I can remember...errrh...did it?...It did have
a few
million runs of "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Wipe Out" on it.
Have any of you played any of these Harmony knock offs of the Jag? No
tremolo unit,
but has the DeArmond gold, radiator looking pickups. Unlike the Mosrites,
the neck
on this thing is like a baseball bat.
This site shows pictures of the same model.
sunburst%202-pickup%201966/
