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This guitar is magic. It was obviously someone’s cherished songwriting and performance partner for a long time. It is structurally as an instrumental almost as perfect as can be, and it has all the true and honest play wear that shows that it was and still is an absolute joy to play. Seriously, it’s an amazing guitar! Harmony guitars that you find today are totally all over the map. When I was first coming across them I thought they were all bad for a long time just because it took me so long to see a good one. A lot, if not most, of them have fallen by the wayside and some were even deliberately destroyed in the early days of metal and grunge where a Jerry Springer style public smashing of guitars was highly fashionable. They were thought of as being some kind of community college version of Martin and Gibson, who were the Ivy Leagues of guitars with memberships to Skull and Bones societies where future world leaders in basements are drunk and naked and whipping each other with caramel apples in their mouths. Anyone who wants to get real about it, though, and who has had experience with each of those worlds, knows that it’s a total mixed bag. Right now there’s an inspired adjunct professor driving a 96 Dodge Neon in Spokane Washington that is just naturally 10 times the educator than some ancient tenured dinosaur who’s only still there because they have dirt on the Dean of Harvard when they saw them at an Eyes Wide Shut party. Guitars are no exception. A name, it’s just a name. There’s great Martins, and there’s bad Martins. There’s great Gibsons, and there’s George W. Bush Gibsons. This Harmony is eating their lunch in their 96 Dodge Neon in the parking lot of their community college before they go teach their 8th class of the day while reciting Charlemagne from memory, and the ex-ultimate frisbee captain turned Ivy League professor who's dad built Yale a parking structure is sliding inappropriately into their students DM's. So this guitar is seriously awesome. The neck is straight as an arrow, and most of the time these are seriously bent and twisted and bowed like crazy. They don't have truss rods, and if someone ever put too heavy of strings on it, or left it at tension for too long through temperature changes, then that's it. This one miraculously has somehow avoided every land mine it could have ever stepped on, it seriously plays like a dream. You can rock complex Lindsay Buckingham and Steve Howe arrangements all up and down on this thing, whereas most of it's kind have high action even down in the cowboy chord region. It's seriously a miracle this one plays so nice, the playability blows away every other Harmony I've ever seen. It's amazing! Sound wise, it has the classic 000-18 presence, and I think it will record beautifully. The body style is naturally EQ'd to sit in a mix way better than a dreadnaught which can have some bass heaviness that always needs to be cut out. It would be a phenomenal studio guitar, but the OM shape is also great for standing and performing with a strap. There's honest play wear which to me is what I love and look for, I love it when guitars have been played but cared for. Those are the best ones. The playability and sound is phenomenal, there's cleaner ones out there but beware because they may not be half the instrument. Amazing guitar!
Harmony OM 000-18 - 1960’s Made in USA 🇺🇸- Perfect Player! - Best Neck and Action! - Soulful Guitar! -
$500
$500
About This Listing
This guitar is magic. It was obviously someone’s cherished songwriting and performance partner for a long time. It is structurally as an instrumental almost as perfect as can be, and it has all the true and honest play wear that shows that it was and still is an absolute joy to play. Seriously, it’s an amazing guitar! Harmony guitars that you find today are totally all over the map. When I was first coming across them I thought they were all bad for a long time just because it took me so long to see a good one. A lot, if not most, of them have fallen by the wayside and some were even deliberately destroyed in the early days of metal and grunge where a Jerry Springer style public smashing of guitars was highly fashionable. They were thought of as being some kind of community college version of Martin and Gibson, who were the Ivy Leagues of guitars with memberships to Skull and Bones societies where future world leaders in basements are drunk and naked and whipping each other with caramel apples in their mouths. Anyone who wants to get real about it, though, and who has had experience with each of those worlds, knows that it’s a total mixed bag. Right now there’s an inspired adjunct professor driving a 96 Dodge Neon in Spokane Washington that is just naturally 10 times the educator than some ancient tenured dinosaur who’s only still there because they have dirt on the Dean of Harvard when they saw them at an Eyes Wide Shut party. Guitars are no exception. A name, it’s just a name. There’s great Martins, and there’s bad Martins. There’s great Gibsons, and there’s George W. Bush Gibsons. This Harmony is eating their lunch in their 96 Dodge Neon in the parking lot of their community college before they go teach their 8th class of the day while reciting Charlemagne from memory, and the ex-ultimate frisbee captain turned Ivy League professor who's dad built Yale a parking structure is sliding inappropriately into their students DM's. So this guitar is seriously awesome. The neck is straight as an arrow, and most of the time these are seriously bent and twisted and bowed like crazy. They don't have truss rods, and if someone ever put too heavy of strings on it, or left it at tension for too long through temperature changes, then that's it. This one miraculously has somehow avoided every land mine it could have ever stepped on, it seriously plays like a dream. You can rock complex Lindsay Buckingham and Steve Howe arrangements all up and down on this thing, whereas most of it's kind have high action even down in the cowboy chord region. It's seriously a miracle this one plays so nice, the playability blows away every other Harmony I've ever seen. It's amazing! Sound wise, it has the classic 000-18 presence, and I think it will record beautifully. The body style is naturally EQ'd to sit in a mix way better than a dreadnaught which can have some bass heaviness that always needs to be cut out. It would be a phenomenal studio guitar, but the OM shape is also great for standing and performing with a strap. There's honest play wear which to me is what I love and look for, I love it when guitars have been played but cared for. Those are the best ones. The playability and sound is phenomenal, there's cleaner ones out there but beware because they may not be half the instrument. Amazing guitar!
