Harmony H-35 Hollow Body Electric Mandolin (1969)
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Item #6675
Harmony H-35 Model Hollow Body Electric Mandolin (1969), made in Chicago, serial # 2831H-35, sunburst lacquer finish, maple body and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, original black chipboard case.
This is an unusual and fairly fancy styled electric mandolin from the later days of the illustrious Harmony company. The single-bound scooped double cutaway body has an extended upper cutaway and eccentrically shaped "F" holes, with a headstock shape that mirrors the body profile. The DeArmond "Golden Tone" pickup is centrally mounted with tone and volume controls on the lower bout, and gives quite a powerful electric sound. The bound rosewood fingerboard has pearloid block inlay. This was actually one of the best electric mandolins of the time (to be fair, there weren't a lot of choices!) and was the favored instrument of Blues mandolin legend Yank Rachell as can be seen in numerous pictures of him.
Overall length is 27 3/8 in. (69.5 cm.), 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 14 in. (356 mm.). Width of nut is 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.). Very clean with just a bit of light wear overall, all original with no alterations. A couple of inconspicuous sealed up cracks, one on the back just twords the tip of the top horn ond one to the top running from under the pickup back past the bridge. Apart from these old repairs this H-35 is as nice as we have ever had, an excellent playing and sounding example. Excellent - Condition.
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This is an unusual and fairly fancy styled electric mandolin from the later days of the illustrious Harmony company. The single-bound scooped double cutaway body has an extended upper cutaway and eccentrically shaped "F" holes, with a headstock shape that mirrors the body profile. The DeArmond "Golden Tone" pickup is centrally mounted with tone and volume controls on the lower bout, and gives quite a powerful electric sound. The bound rosewood fingerboard has pearloid block inlay. This was actually one of the best electric mandolins of the time (to be fair, there weren't a lot of choices!) and was the favored instrument of Blues mandolin legend Yank Rachell as can be seen in numerous pictures of him.
Overall length is 27 3/8 in. (69.5 cm.), 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 14 in. (356 mm.). Width of nut is 1 1/4 in. (32 mm.). Very clean with just a bit of light wear overall, all original with no alterations. A couple of inconspicuous sealed up cracks, one on the back just twords the tip of the top horn ond one to the top running from under the pickup back past the bridge. Apart from these old repairs this H-35 is as nice as we have ever had, an excellent playing and sounding example. Excellent - Condition.