HARMONY STANDARD SERIES JUPITER & REBEL
Through the 1950s and 60s and into the 70s, while manufacturing more instruments than any other maker on the planet, Chicago-based Harmony cranked out several affordable models that suited not only beginners, but everyone from punks to bluesers to grunge-y garage-rockers as well. Soon after, though, the brand slipped its American moorings to be bounced around through several owners, before fading from the market entirely.
Now under the ownership of BandLab Technologies – which has also acquired Teisco, Mono, Guitar.com and Guitar Magazine, and is a partner of Heritage Guitars – the three models in the new Harmony Standard Series line-up are manufactured back in the USA at 225 Parsons Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It’s an address redolent of guitar-world nostalgia as the original and golden-age home of Gibson.
From the débutante trio of Jupiter, Rebel and Silhouette, we have the former two for review here. The many similarities between
