Article: Reintroducing the harmony guitar line: harmony, the world's most popular guitar brand for close to a century, is coming back with a faithful reissue of the famous Ritchie Valens model.(BRINGING BACK THE PAST)

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Ritchie Valens' first guitar was a forest-green Harmony H44 Stratotone, a model that hasn't been in production since 1957--until now, that is. Winter NAMM 2008, which falls just short of 49 years since Valens' passing, will mark the reissue of the H44 and several of the other prized Harmony models from the middle of the last century. Fourteen models in all, in two or three finishes each, will return to the market for the first time in at least 40 years.

"I've owned the Harmony Guitar Company now for about 15 years, and this is something that's always been in the back of my mind," says Harmony owner Charlie Subecz. "There seemed to ...

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