Ooooooooh. This fine piece of ass is a Harmony Stratotone H44. Small bodied, copper colored, and bluesy sounding. Harmony recently started reissuing these beauties. Richie Valens played one, but I fell in love with it after seeing Tom Waits play one. I imagine myself with one of these, a bottleneck slide, and a Fender Blues Deluxe. When I first saw it, the body freaked me out, but I soon got used to it's unique shape and overall great construction. Arguably, It's the epitome of a classic blues guitar. At least for me. Great players like Valens, Waits, and Marc Ribot, use this guitar. No wonder Marc Ribot has the best tone. He plays vintage guitars, mostly Harmony's.
You'll be seeing a lot of Harmony axes on my dream guitar list, up there with some Gretschs, Fenders, Danelectros, Guilds, and Rickenbackers.
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