6-pole adjustable pickup in Harmony Bass H25 (1966-1971)Ħ. Two same-height 4-Vee pickups in 1972 Harmony H426 Silhouette Bass, 1972-1973.ĥ. Fitted pickguard from single-pickup version of Harmony H426Ĥ. This Barclay Bass was fitted with two soapbar versions of pickups installed in Harmony H22 and H22/1 Basses.ģ. Unidentified Barclay bass similar to Harmony H25 bass. The Harmony single cutaway bass model H22/1 and twin cutaway bass model H22 with the white ‘Batwing’ pickguard were both fitted with this chrome pickup shown below with an integral bezel and two gold and two white inserts (photo copyright Icecoach22).Ģ. The pickups fitted in Harmony basses were also used in some other basses produced by CMI, including Barclay and Holiday.ġ. It is an S-grille soapbar with a black version of the white bezel used on many other Harmony pickups (B0273). This pickup was fitted in Harmony mandolins H35 and H835. The upper side of the timber base is flat to fit the pickup, but the underside is precisely contoured to fit that specific archtop’s contoured surface. This base was also used where a pickup with a flat base, as that shown, was fitted in an archtop guitar. To maintain the same distance between each pickup and the strings, each pickup was mounted on a rosewood base of a different height, as shown.
The pickup was available in one height only. This pickup was fitted to the Harmony guitar models H75, H76, H77 and H78. The black bezels shown in the three photos above were also supplied with DeArmond’s first retro-fit humbucker, the Models 2200B and T. This particular model has hollow rivets which are used to secure the pickup to the body of the instrument with woodscrews.Īnother version of the two-scroll pickup with no visible poles was fitted to Harmony guitar model H68. Guitars: H1 Roy Smeck lap Steel, Hi4 Bobkat, H15 Bobkat, H16B Blue Kolor Kat, H16R Red Kolor Kat, H16W White Kolor Kat, H16B Black Kolor Kat, H19 Silhouette, H39 Hollywood, H41 Hollywood, H44 Stratotone, H45 Stratotone, H46 Stratotone, H47 Mercury Stratotone, H48 Stratotone, H49 Stratotone Jupiter, H53, H54 Rocket II, H56 Rocket, H59 Rocket, 1970 Harmony H59/1 3-pickup Rocket, H60 Left-handed Meteor, H61, H64, H66 Vibra Jet, H70 Meteor, H70 Meteor LH, H72V, H73 Roy Smeck, H74, H75, H79 12-string (two examples), H81 Rebel, H82 Rebel, H82G Rebel Greenburst, H88 Stratotone, H601 Lap Steel, H655 Sovereign, H661, H671, H1324īasic ‘Hershey Bar’ type bar pickup: The basic chrome soapbar guitar pickup, also referred to as the ‘Hershey Bar’ pickup, for surface-mounting onto a pickguard by means of solid rivets, or for recessing into the guitar’s body, by means of woodscrews. (NOTE: H82 was later assigned to the Harmony Rebel twin-pickup guitar) H282 ‘Electro’ 5-string Electric Tenor Banjo. Mandolins: Total 2: H35 and H835, Harmony Baroque Electric Mandolinīanjos: Total 2: H82 ‘Electro’ 4-string Electric Tenor Banjo, 1956, w one plain Hershey Bar woodscrew-fixed pickup. Some pickups were used on a number of different instruments, but some others were used on one instrument only.īasses: Total 7: H22, H22/1, H25, H27, H420, H425 and H426. The range of pickups supplied to Harmony by DeArmond was correspondingly wide. This page last updated February 11, 2022.ĬMI – Chicago Musical Instruments – at one time produced more instruments than all of their American competitors combined, mainly under the Harmony brand but also under Airline, Alden, Barclay, Heathkit, Holiday, Regal, Silvertone, Truetone and some other names.
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