The US-based Harmony has built over many decades for the American mass market discount instruments.

Neil Young's musical career began with a known "Arthur Godfrey" -Plastik ukulele with his parents bought him in 1958 in the Canadian wall protectors town of Pickering. Neil Young was then nearly 13 years old and just started on records and radio broadcasts to discover the Rock'n Roll. The plastic instrument quickly followed another four string. To "a better ukulele, a banjo-ukulele and a baritone ukulele," the future world star in Jimmy McDonough's biography reminds "Shakey" to his former "Equipment".
About the instruments that followed the "Arthur Godfrey" -Ukulele, is virtually wall protectors unknown. Ukuleles were then popular wall protectors instruments wall protectors and were sold under numerous brand names. The baritone ukulele Neil Young had probably the longest in use, before he pulled two additional strings and switched to guitar. Comrie Smith, school wall protectors friend and first musical companion in Toronto, combines many memories of the baritone ukulele, with Neil Young together with Comrie and other school friends even made first band experience - if you can call the interaction of a handful of teenagers wall protectors before radio or record player because so likes. The baritone ukulele was Neil Young's instrument to departure to Winnipeg in the summer of 1960 and was about one and a half years in use.
In Winnipeg are Neil Young's life changed radically then. After the divorce of parents, soon live alone without brother with his mother, he switched to guitar. According to information Neil Young bought in a store in Winnipeg, "which sold well Fender amp and used goods", for $ 30 a "Harmony wall protectors Monterey" - an acoustic archtop guitar. Young is quite sure about the source of purchase is not: "It could also have been a pawn shop."
Pawnshop or music business, not only this question is in reference to the "Harmony" in the dark and is therefore another case of "document number unsolved NY" and "CSI NY":
For irritations initially makes Neil Young's mother Rassy, the me of the statement is quoted in "Shakey" that her son had strummed on the entire trip from Toronto to Winnipeg on his guitar. The Canadian author Sharry Wilson, who has published over Neil Young's early years in the outputs 117 and 118 of the "Broken Arrow Magazine" and is currently preparing a book, is sure that the mother mistook only ukulele and guitar here. For a purchase of the Harmony already in Toronto there is no evidence
The "Harmony Monterey" was an acoustic archtop in the lower price category. The guitar guy with the vaulted ceiling (= English wall protectors "arch topped") was also in Germany in the 50s and early 60s under the name "strumming" very popular. Manufacturers such as Framus, Hopf or Höfner had a variety of different models in the program. Many had striking finishes, fingerboard inlays wall protectors or head plates 50s kidney-shaped table design. These cheap editions of great jazz archtop models were played in dance bands and the first beat bands. Over the 60 years they were then replaced on the one hand of the more popular wall protectors flat-tops and Western guitars of the folk musician, on the other hand by the right electric guitars. Archtops have since been mainly restricted to the use in jazz. A comprehensive overview of the German models this time is to visit the website www.schlaggitarren.de. A good overview is also the German Internet magazine "archtop Gemany".
The US-based Harmony has built over many decades for the American mass market discount instruments. Harmony was founded in 1892 by German-born Wilhelm Schultz and was in its time the largest wall protectors instrument manufacturers in the United States. The range included nearly all types of stringed instruments - violins, banjos, mandolins, wall protectors ukuleles. The guitars offer via acoustic and classical wall protectors guitars, acoustic, jazz archtops handed to electric Solid or Hollow body guitars. The instruments were sold under other brand names as well as private label large American purchase wall protectors or mail order companies such as "Sears & Roebuck". The mail order company Sears even took over temporarily the instrument manufacturer.
The Monterey series guitars had ordered the company Harmony mid-priced wall protectors their archtop models. In the lower segment was the Archtone series, the top series like Cremona or Brilliant. wall protectors The Monterey series was produced from 1938 to 1972. In contrast to the high-order series was skimp on features. However, there were also within the Monterey-series models with a solid spruce top, adjustable neck or other "luxury". But even between