STELLA HARMONY H927 USA VINTAGE 60s PARLOR BLUES GUITAR

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______________________________________________________________ STELLA HARMONY H927 USA VINTAGE 1960s LADDER BRACED ALL SOLID BIRCH PARLOR ACOUSTIC BLUES GUITAR - GREAT BLUES TONE, PLAYING AND CONDITION. _____________________________________________________________________________________ *** BLUESMAN'S VINTAGE HARMONY & STELLA COLLECTION - I now have a copy of the February 2011 issue of "Guitar & Bass Magazine" with an article entitled "Harmony Central" in which Ian Siegal discusses his adoration of his collection of Vintage 60's Harmony & Stella Guitars!!! *** International Stella H927 & H929 Sales!! - Quote from Email from the French buyer of the Stella H927 I sold on 12/08 - "I received the Stella guitar today , I already played hours with, it's fantastic! Thank you for the great deal, it was a pleasure. Best wishes from Brittany!" Anot her Stella H929 sold to a buyer in Italy since! Received 10/09 buyer says "Wonderful blues guitar etc. - see feedback! Further recent Stella sales 16/11/2010 - "cannot recommend highly enough" - another French buyer 07/01/2011 - "beautiful guitar" - another 30/01/2011 - "very happy" - Spanish buyer of 3/4 H929 22/02/2011 - "great instrument" - SAME BUYER HAS TODAY BOUGHT MY FULL SIZE H929! ______________________________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION. _ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Following a number of '60s Stellas I have sold in recent months, this one is the Blond/Natural finish top H927, rather than the Faux Flame/Sunburst H929 - different finish versions of the same iconic Chicago made parlor Blues Guitar - all solid Birch, ladder braced construction. The blond finish allows the really nice marking in the Birch top to show - one of the really nice features of Birch is that no two pieces have the same markings. The usual inside ink date and model number stamps are both missing in this guitar - not unusual, but judging by the presence of ferrules to the tuners and the style of painted position markers on the fingerboard, I would say we are right at the end of the sixties. The guitar is original, except perhaps for the floating bridge, which is not the standard style and may have been replaced, or remodeled, but works well. The tuner strips show only slight age related discolouration and also work fine, and the standard Stella metal tailpiece is in similarly good shape. There is only very slight play wear noted to the frets and fingerboard, which has the usual 24.25" scale. Sometimes these guitars are mistakenly described as three-quarter size, but there is a three-quarter size version of the H929 which is much smaller, this being the full size model with standard Stella dimensions of overall length - 36.25"/96cm., body with lower bout - 13.25"/33.5cm., upper bout - 9.5"/24.2cm., body length - 17.8"/45.2cm., body depth front - 3.25"/8.2cm., rear - 3.7"/9.3cm. The condition is generally good for a 40+ year old guitar, but inevitably there are small chips/scratches and edge wear to the painted bindings, but really minimal for a Stella of this type and age, and as I hope the photos show this remains a really handsome blues machine! The scrachplate does have a scratch, and what also appears to be a small burn - no self-respecting blues guitar from the '60s should be without one! The top has a slight "shaping" around the soundhole, which has been monitored over recent weeks, and inspected by a professional specialist Luthier, but as a precaution only Englemann Spruce length-wise strengthening pieces have been fitted to the underside of the top, above and below the soundhole, by the Luthier. It has been re-strung Martin 12s. If you are an acoustic blues player and wonder why that top line guitar you bought doesn't sound authentic when you play blues like those of Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, or Blind Lemon Jefferson, I can tell you why it doesn't and never will! All of those guys and many others from the 30s through to... read more

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