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MADE IN USA 1972 HARMONY H35 BATWING ACOUSTIC/ELECTRIC MANDOLIN + ORIGINAL CASE
Estimated price for orientation: 450 $
Category: Mandolins
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Description Brand: Harmony Body Material: Maple MPN: H35 Top Material: Spruce Number of Strings: 8 Items Included: Case, Pickup Body Style: Bat style Type: Acoustic/Electric Model: Batwing Country/Region of Manufacture: United States Right-/ Left-Handed: Right Handed Skill Level: Advanced
1972 Harmony H35 Batwing Electric/Acoustic mandolin in 100% original condition and in good working order. Boasting a DeArmond Gold Foil pickup, this mandolin delivers the clear percussive chop and sweet clarity of these famed pickups. With VERY healthy output, balanced EQ, and plenty of sparkle and chime on tap, this Harmony excels as both an acoustic and electric instrument. Professionally setup with comfortable, low action and D'Addario EXP strings, this Harmony H35 is a serious player's instrument with great tone and versatility.Perhaps most notably used by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones when the band toured acoustically in 1975, Harmony's H35 model has been used by a diverse range of notable artists, from Yank Rachell (the "elder statesman of the blues") to Fleet Foxes.The neck has a medium U profile that's inviting to the hand and very easy to play, with original brass frets that retain their full, original height. The frets and fingerboard are excellent. The headstock sports the original black plastic overlay with an engraved "Harmony" logo and striking headstock shape which matches the batwing pickguard and asymmetrical body contours. The original Waverly tuning machines are intact and turn smoothly, holding pitch well.On the body, all of the electronics work as they should, with simple Volume and Tone controls governing the gold foil pickup. All of the original hardware is intact including the floating rosewood bridge, pickguard, chrome tailpiece, and mini DeArmond black bell knobs. Not to be confused with the same model which was made in Japan after '72, this mandolin is an original USA made Harmony product, with the Harmony factory stamp visible through the F hole, along with the Rowe Industries, USA 1972 date stamp on the underside of the Gold Foil.The stately and original two-tone sunburst nitro lacquer finish is vibrant and striking. There are two professionally repaired cracks on the side and top - these have been spread with epoxy inside the body and have been TOTALLY stable for the 10 years since I did the work.
Description
| Brand: | Harmony | Body Material: | Maple |
| MPN: | H35 | Top Material: | Spruce |
| Number of Strings: | 8 | Items Included: | Case, Pickup |
| Body Style: | Bat style | Type: | Acoustic/Electric |
| Model: | Batwing | Country/Region of Manufacture: | United States |
| Right-/ Left-Handed: | Right Handed | Skill Level: | Advanced |
1972 Harmony H35 Batwing Electric/Acoustic mandolin in 100% original condition and in good working order. Boasting a DeArmond Gold Foil pickup, this mandolin delivers the clear percussive chop and sweet clarity of these famed pickups. With VERY healthy output, balanced EQ, and plenty of sparkle and chime on tap, this Harmony excels as both an acoustic and electric instrument. Professionally setup with comfortable, low action and D'Addario EXP strings, this Harmony H35 is a serious player's instrument with great tone and versatility.Perhaps most notably used by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones when the band toured acoustically in 1975, Harmony's H35 model has been used by a diverse range of notable artists, from Yank Rachell (the "elder statesman of the blues") to Fleet Foxes.The neck has a medium U profile that's inviting to the hand and very easy to play, with original brass frets that retain their full, original height. The frets and fingerboard are excellent. The headstock sports the original black plastic overlay with an engraved "Harmony" logo and striking headstock shape which matches the batwing pickguard and asymmetrical body contours. The original Waverly tuning machines are intact and turn smoothly, holding pitch well.On the body, all of the electronics work as they should, with simple Volume and Tone controls governing the gold foil pickup. All of the original hardware is intact including the floating rosewood bridge, pickguard, chrome tailpiece, and mini DeArmond black bell knobs. Not to be confused with the same model which was made in Japan after '72, this mandolin is an original USA made Harmony product, with the Harmony factory stamp visible through the F hole, along with the Rowe Industries, USA 1972 date stamp on the underside of the Gold Foil.The stately and original two-tone sunburst nitro lacquer finish is vibrant and striking. There are two professionally repaired cracks on the side and top - these have been spread with epoxy inside the body and have been TOTALLY stable for the 10 years since I did the work. |