The neck with a rosewood fingerboard is 25 1/4' scale with 20 frets and the heel at the 14.th fret it is a neck-through design with added 'ears' at the body, but without a truss rod. The single single-coil pickup in a neck position came with tone and volume controls and a switch between 'rhythm' and 'lead' characteristics. electric, as opposed to 'Hawaiian electric' lap steel guitars) single- cutaway guitar with a 'copper-bronze' finish. The Stratotone H44 was a 'thin body' 'Spanish electric' (i. This predates the use of the suffix 'strato' in the naming of the Fender Stratocaster by two years. The name is a compound of stratosphere and tone. The headplate was adorned with a note symbol styled as an atom. The Stratotone was a commercially successful family of solid body electric guitars which was produced from 1952 on. Stratotone H44 played by Per Ängkvist (2011 in Stockholm) Pickups for almost all Harmony electric guitars and basses were manufactured by Rowe Industries in Toledo, Ohio, from the mid 1940s until the closure of Harmony in the mid 1970s. The OEM models were typically very similar to Harmony instruments but with cosmetic differences (e.g., finish color).

Harmony was an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for several other brands, most notably Silvertone.

('F-45' would indicate the instrument was manufactured in the first half of 1945). They were also date stamped using an 'F' for instruments manufactured during the first half of the year and an 'S' for those built in the second half, and a 2 digit year code. A model/batch number of the form nnnnHmmmm where 'nnnn' is a batch number and 'mmmm' is a model number ('6072H950' for example would be an H950 model). Harmony hollow-body instruments were marked with inkstamps within the body of the instrument. The 'H' stood for the name of the company. Harmony's model numbers consisted of an 'H' followed by a 2 to 4 digit number.

Harmony Stella Guitar Serial Numbers