A Vintage Stella Harmony - A great guitar for dirty slide blues

Описание: In this video I wanted to show you my very first guitar, a Stella H-929 vintage Harmony acoustic, a great dirty slide blues guitar.

I’ve had this guitar for a long time but only discovered a few years ago what a legendary instrument it actually is. Those guitars were popular guitars among students and beginners but they were also used by many great blues and rock artists such as Lead Belly, Robert Johnson and Kurt Cobain.

I talk a bit about the story behind this particular guitar but also about the Stella guitar history which was originally made by the Oscar Schmitd Company before it was taken over by the Harmony Company in Chicago in 1939.

My vintage Stella Harmony is quite beat up and is very much in a need of a restoration and I show you all the bits that need to be repaired. It is almost impossible to play like a regular guitar due to a high action but I instead use it mainly for slide playing.

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I also mentioned the Orn Custom Guitars built by Gunnar Örn, the luthier who is going to help me out with the Stella. Definitely check out his work:

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00:00 My very first guitar
00:41 A bit of history
01:55 Famous artists
02:12 In a need of a repair
02:48 Great for slide
04:34 Repair and restoration