| A pictorial tribute to the Harmony Ukulele of Chicago |
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| The Humble Harmony Uke |
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| Photo: robert - founder |
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| Harmony Decals Through The Decades |
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| The Harmony Roy Smeck Vita Series |
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| An old stenciled Harmony from my small arsenal ...Somebody coaxed a lot of tunes from it in it's day |
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| ...The same model in near-mint condition |
| Not-so-humble Harmony "Celebrity" Instruments |
| (The "Vita Uke" is obscured in the center background) |
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| The Johnny Marvin Professional "Tenor" |
| (Actually a concert-size) |
| Some Harmony Uke Ads... circa 1950's-60's |
| One of the earliest labels 20's - 30's |
| The last of the Chicago labels |
| ??? I've only seen one like this (on an old green "Palm Tree" uke) |
| circa 1950's |
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| A couple of visions in green The oft-repeated Palm Tree motif |
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| The Harmony Roy Smeck Concert Uke |
| Photos: Elderly Instruments |
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| Some variations on the "Diamond H" theme |
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| Very early (20's - 30's ???) - Gold oval - red and white border with stylized garland at top Black printing - "HARMONY" - "MADE BY THE HARMONY COMPANY" - "CHICAGO. U.S.A." Late 40's (perhaps) has black lettering against gold back ground, with no border. Gold background "shadows" the text - "Harmony - CHICAGO U.S.A." Late 40's??? - Early 50's - A symmetrical decal with cream colored back ground bordered in shaded green with a "ribbon like" format. Black lettering, on the cream - "Harmony" - "made by" - On the bottom of the green trim - "The Harmony Company" - "Chicago U.S.A." 50's - In the symmetrical decal described above, in the cream colored field, below "Harmony" - "made by" is removed and "reg. u.s. pat. office no 627412” is added. 50's - 60's???? In the symmetrical decal described, just above, in the cream colored field, below "Harmony" - "made in the U.S.A." was added. 50's???? - 60's ????? - An asymmetrical decal, with same coloring (cream/green) as those other cream/green (above), and all of the black text as with previous above. The design of the decal reminds one of a watermelon seed (different color of course) exiting stage left at great speed. Tapered. Very modern. |
| A summary of Harmony Label Styles robert - founder (from the archives of Chuck Fayne's Uke Yak) |
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| circa late 1940's |
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| Another stenciled wonder... |
| I've been told that this model was marketed to school music programs... (I guess that would explain the notes). I wonder if they made one for the "other" tuning |
| (actually a short-scale soprano at 12-15/16ths inch scale length) ...thanks Soybean! |
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| Photo: robert - founder |
| The "Prince of Wales" a Johnny Marvin Professional Tenor in koa |
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