After decades of operation, the Harmony company of Chicago USA disbanded in the mid 1970's. The new owners of the name produced their instruments from Asian soil, keeping up with modern trends of Asian and American design, and labeled their instruments with "Harmony Est. 1892". In 2001 when MBT International owned the name, some reissues of the USA made instruments surfaced. Extremely limited models were reproduced, and even then in extremely limited numbers.
The Rocket was originally made in 1959 as a one pickup model, and through the 1960's was produced with 2 and 3 pickups. 2001 saw the reissue of the Rocket from Korea in black with 3 pickups as the "HAR59BK" pictured below. Each pickup has its own volume and tone control, and a selector switch allows signal from each pickup, or all of them together.
I'm lucky enough to own one these. Only 100 were produced... ever. This one pictured is mine, and is #90.
