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Harmony H-166 Sovereign Acoustic Guitar - $169

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For sale is an amazing value from 1971-1972, a natural finish version of the Harmony Sovereign H-166 Acoustic Guitar. It is a full-sized dreadnought so it projects sound! Comes with pictured hard case. Does not come with strap (if you want for $20, it's a Levy's 2" Heavy-Weight Brown Cotton Guitar Strap with a leather headstock tie, looks nice on the guitar). Price firm $169.

Before you read further, check out this video about this guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq488_EpbF4

You will not find a budget guitar today with any of the virtues of this guitar, because so many of the best tone woods are no longer available or are just too expensive. This guitar has a combo of solid Spruce and mahogany sides, spruce rings and sustains, and mahogany gives it warm tight bass, that just screams tone. This has an adjustable truss rod, the action is very good and linear.

Solid spruce top
Mahogany back and sides
Bound white celluloid
Rosewood fingerboard
Maple neck
Adjustable hardwood bridge
White bridge pins
Sealed tuning keys

In excellent condition, photos show some fret wear in the first 3 frets (makes it look "played") and two small blemishes on front face. Strings are D'Addario Acoustic Guitar Strings, Phosphor Bronze, EJ26, Custom Light Gauge 11-52. Still some life in them.

Fairlakes region of Fairfax. Come give her a play.

One fan explains features of this Sovereign that you cannot even get in a $1500 Martin today:

1. One piece solid quartersawn Honduran mahogany back. Inferior Martin 000-18's and Gibsons that sell for over $1,000 from the same time period are "two piece". 16" wide defect free solid quartersawn mahogany doesn't exist anymore. It's gone from the entire planet. Here it is in excellent condition.

2. Hide glue construction. Most manufacturers these days including the high end makers use aliphatic resin glue. Hide glue dries to a glass-like consistency with virtually no damping. Way nicer. Also the shellac finish is superior to poly finishes used often today in terms of sound and aging properties.

3.Quartersawn Brazilian rosewood fingerboard and bridge. Solid red spruce top (good luck with finding that on a modern guitar).

4. Adjustable truss rod. What's that you say? Your vintage Martin just has a steel bar in there? Oh well... maybe you can have one retrofit.

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