Very nice. I remember Sears selling those. Looks like my Harmony Silhouette with mustache pickups , thinking they must have been made by the same folks? Mine was gifted by a blues student a few years ago. Don’t these sound great- such an interesting neck. I keep forgetting to play it… so many choices! Thanks for sharing. Aren’t you in Roanoke?
Harmony Silvertone 1478! My folks paid (I think) 50 bucks for it and a crappy solid state amp the summer I turned 15 (50 years ago!) Broke the headstock off it and got an SG, but it remained my "one that got away" when I resumed playing in the '90s. Saw 'em as high as $1200 (ridiculous!) before the reissue (different pickups and tailpiece, not the same instrument!). Bought this off Reverb last summer -- cat had it listed for $600, I talked him down to $500, making it my most expensive axe ever (perspective: title previously held by a black Les Paul I bought in '76 for $350...sigh). I'm actually in Fort Worth.
@@stashdauber Great story. You remind me of a singer songwriter in Roanoke, Va. Here’s my Harmony- from the ‘50’s- it has an early whammy bar. So glad you tracked down your old friend. Keep picking!
@@marktroxell7610 Silhouette: My Silvertone mania was rekindled when I saw Annie Clark aka St. Vincent playing one of those. I guess she uses custom stuff now. After selling a '66 SG for what I'd paid for it in '78 when I got divorced in the early Aughts -- stupid man! -- I played black Peavey and Squier Strat clones "exclusively" for years (only $150 guitars left in America!) until friends gifted me a couple of nice axes you can see in other vids here.
@@stashdauber Some years ago our bass player complimented my sound in our first set and I commented that I was playing a $100 Martin knockoff since mine was in the shop. I’ll never forget his wry reply, “ Man, it’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian!” 😘
@@marktroxell7610 There are different schools of thought on this. Once I showed up for a blues gig with an Epi Les Paul Junior clone I picked up from GC for 50 bucks. My frontman's response: "Aw, man, don't you have your Strat anymore?" (I didn't.)
Nice ol guitar! And beautiful playing!
Now I am satisfied
Killed it as always. Sounds great mate
Thanks!
beautiful my man!!
When i here this . I think of .....Album , Safe as Milk .
It's all folk music.
Love your guitar tone!
Thanks! Just crappy low output pickups with the littlest bit of preamp overdrive.
Very nice. I remember Sears selling those. Looks like my Harmony Silhouette with mustache pickups , thinking they must have been made by the same folks? Mine was gifted by a blues student a few years ago. Don’t these sound great- such an interesting neck. I keep forgetting to play it… so many choices! Thanks for sharing. Aren’t you in Roanoke?
Harmony Silvertone 1478! My folks paid (I think) 50 bucks for it and a crappy solid state amp the summer I turned 15 (50 years ago!) Broke the headstock off it and got an SG, but it remained my "one that got away" when I resumed playing in the '90s. Saw 'em as high as $1200 (ridiculous!) before the reissue (different pickups and tailpiece, not the same instrument!). Bought this off Reverb last summer -- cat had it listed for $600, I talked him down to $500, making it my most expensive axe ever (perspective: title previously held by a black Les Paul I bought in '76 for $350...sigh). I'm actually in Fort Worth.
@@stashdauber Great story. You remind me of a singer songwriter in Roanoke, Va. Here’s my Harmony- from the ‘50’s- it has an early whammy bar. So glad you tracked down your old friend. Keep picking!
@@marktroxell7610 Silhouette: My Silvertone mania was rekindled when I saw Annie Clark aka St. Vincent playing one of those. I guess she uses custom stuff now. After selling a '66 SG for what I'd paid for it in '78 when I got divorced in the early Aughts -- stupid man! -- I played black Peavey and Squier Strat clones "exclusively" for years (only $150 guitars left in America!) until friends gifted me a couple of nice axes you can see in other vids here.
@@stashdauber Some years ago our bass player complimented my sound in our first set and I commented that I was playing a $100 Martin knockoff since mine was in the shop. I’ll never forget his wry reply, “ Man, it’s not the arrow, it’s the Indian!” 😘
@@marktroxell7610 There are different schools of thought on this. Once I showed up for a blues gig with an Epi Les Paul Junior clone I picked up from GC for 50 bucks. My frontman's response: "Aw, man, don't you have your Strat anymore?" (I didn't.)