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Location: Converse, Texas | Any of you who get Ovations for Christmas and come onto this website to tell us all about it, you MUST post pictures! That way we can all salivate! |
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Location: south east Michigan | UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE :D |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My wife has already given me my present, a "used" (yeah, right) 2002 Collectors Series from our local Guitar Center. Sorry, no pictures yet. It does look like what you see on the Ovation site, though!!!!
Leo Papa("Folklore") has seen it and played it before we bought it. He can attest to it being one nice looking roundback.
His new Folklore is sweet, too!!!! :)
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Location: Upper Left USA | "...Oh Santa Baby! Just one more little thing, with strings! Come on down my chimney tonight!"
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Location: Converse, Texas | Roger, play by the rules: PHOTOS! :D |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Rules are made to be broken.... :D
Pictures of my guitars is not a priority with me, I'd rather spend my time playing them(that's why no gallery), but I'll see what I can do.....
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Location: Midland, MI | If I start taking pics of guitars, my wife will think I'm getting ready to put ProjectViper up for sale. I'd hate to get her hopes up around the holidays, so I'll have to pass. ;) |
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Location: Texas | Well, I am very excited that tomorrow I will finally get my MM68 mandolin!
I am afraid my daughter Katia will be the one playing it most of the time, but I hope to enjoy it too. ;)
We plan to play a few Xmas carols tomorrow and she can play the mandolin while I play my blue Adamas I.
Will post pictures.
Serge
www.sergiolara.com :cool: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Too cool Serge!
As I was pulling out from the house this morning to start my Xmas shopping I passed the UPS Truck in my neighborhood. Knowing it is too early, it was exciting to hope anyway. I should have some veneers for pick guards, a 1624, some polishing stuff from StewMac and Deacon body coming in the day to 2 weeks! There was a Gevalia box at the door though!
Time spent with Loved Ones, Music, anticipation and Music (I like the music). |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | A picture of my 2002 Collectors is now in the Gallery under "Old Applause Owner".
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Location: south east Michigan | Hmmmm. There was a Uke....a uke t-shirt...a uke stand...a uke pitch pipe and uke strings.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cool! |
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Location: Tennessee | Now THAT has gotta be one of the top pictures of 2004! A virtual tie with the M,pi/SO Christmas uke pic. ;) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Is it Art mimicking Life or Life mimicking Art!
Then again, its just Brad living out a Uke T-shirt fantasy! Go Brad!!
I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules. This is great though. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Gonna rock that uke, rock it all night long..... :D
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Location: Vernon, CT | You can't spell the work puke without the word uke! Play On!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules..."
Where is this pic? I wouldn't wanna miss that!
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Location: Upper Left USA | It resides in the Louvre... Ok, it's in Cliff's gallery
Big gifts
I want it on a Tshirt! |
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Location: SoCal | If it goes on a t shirt, I got dibs on the first one. XXL. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | The picture of Slipkid and his Ovation uke has become my Ovation for Christmas gift. Ukes have a special significance for me because my mother loved them and it was probably the first stringed instrument I ever saw.
Brad, get some old Hawiian records and a grass skirt and make a Videotape featuring all that good stuff. You playing please, your wife in the grass skirt.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | "I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules..."
That is truly a classic... In every way. Put that on the OFC available goody list and I bet you would sell a bunch...
TOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | :D
I'll take one t-shirt in each color...size L.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Santa came a few weeks early on some of these but checked our list for:
New 6751 12 string Standard Balladeer
Our "bible" "THE" BOOK "History of Ovation" by Carter
New Keth Urban DVD with some killer videos
3 tickets to Keith Urban Concert, 1/30/05
Alison Krauss Live Performance dbl CD set
Bunch of new single strings to try "Alternative Tunings" on the 12 string
Found a Kalamazoo(Gibson)circa 1925 or so Mandolin in the bedroom, I forgot about and would like to set it up, for my 10 yr. old daughter...
Happy Holidays to you and yours from:
the wife, the daughter and yours truly and newest arrival... a 13 week old, 6 lb., blk/tan dachsund puppy... that melts the hearts of anyone who sees "Precious"...
2005 should be one hell of a year, in ALL respects !!!
Ab
PS Posted twice cuz I am pretty EXITED about my new 12 stg Balladeer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Ab, you should be excited, the 6751 is a great guitar....bang for the buck quotient is very high!!!
A 1925 Kalamazoo mando???? Couldn't be a cheaper knock-off of a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 or A-5 could it???? Arch-top???? Flat-top???? Just curious.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Ab, you should be excited, the 6751 is a great guitar....bang for the buck quotient is very high!!!
I agree, stepping up from a celeb cc026 was a big move for my skill level... but I find the wider neck easier to play... and I love the "voice" of the 12 string...
A 1925 Kalamazoo mando???? Couldn't be a cheaper knock-off of a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 or A-5 could it???? Arch-top???? Flat-top???? Just curious.
Roger
Not sure what your trying to say... it is a genuine article, we traced back how many years my coworker's grandfather had played it and we landed around 1925-1930 tha's why I said "circa 1925 OR SO" (Al P. had said it was from the 30's... Could be not sure yet... It IS a round back AND a Archtop...
If someone would tell me, or send me THE link on how to post some pics, I'll try to get a shot of it up if you want... (searching gets TOOOOO manty hits when one of you pros out there no just the right post to link with...
I'll also find out more about (the Kalamazoo) from the Mando contacts, I received from this "other' post...
Roger did you read this post on Mandos I made???
MY Grandfather(I am talking about mine (AB's) not my coworkers...) had Mandolin, a Lyon and Healy model A, which looks just like this one:
http://www.chinatogalway.com/Lyon%20and%20Healy.htm
I recently saw it on a summer trip thru San Francisco this past summer, my cousin rescued it from the attic, from our grandparents estate... I remember seeing the case as a kid and thought it was a "baby" guitar... I don’t remember even opening it up!!!
Still has original case that is worn but all still working, strings and tortoise shell pics, from the last time my grandfather played it... (I never saw him pick it up and we lived next door to him since I was 5 years old and I am 51 now!!!
My research after seeing (just the case) for the first time in 40 years or so, revealed it’s brand name, model and heritage... It proved it to be valued at $2500-$3000. It is in perfect shape with aged finish... The history of that mando was fascinating to discover... Unfortunately the info and pics I took are in another computers hard drive that is sitting idle in my daughters bedroom, next to another computer she uses... I could get a copy from my cousin whom I researched it for…
It is unique in and of it's own right, not your Bill Monroe sort of instrument as I recall... Has a unique voice,... (they made funny looking “script” letters back then I THINK it was a model “A” Anyway it was the best one that company made… The story behind the music store was just as fascinating to read as the Mandolin itself… The company is no longer in business it has been swallowed up by a conglomerate, but in it’s day they were one of the largest music stores around and I think they had stores in Chicago and New York City… Family owned, father son deal I think…
Roger the Lyon and Healy model A was a piece of art!!! The peghead looks like a miniature base fiddle with scrolls and exquisite workmanship... I made my cousin promis to never let it get out of the family...
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Ab, certainly NOT trying to say that the Kalamazoo is not authentic or total junk.....Kalamazoo was the "cheap line" (or student line as Al put it) of Gibson. If it was a 1925 or so model, I was wondering if it might be a cheaper version of the classic Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 or A-5 mandolin designs(first built in the 1923-25 time frame). The F-5 is the pattern for most mandolins used for bluegrass music now, and is the "Bill Monroe" instrument.
I did see your other post on the mandolin.
I am certainly no expert on mandolin collectability, but I would think a Kalamazoo mando in decent shape would get SOME interest from collectors. Maybe they are too common, though.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | AB
That Lyon and Healey is one beautiful mandolin, I saw a picture of Bill Monroe playing a mandolin in his early days that loooked a lot like that, but I don't recall it having that distinctive headstock. I believe you are right to keep it in the family, but someone should carefully tune it up and play it now and then, good mandolins should be played.
Roundbacks from the early part of the century usually have astounding examples of wood work and trim, and beautiful woods that you will never see today. Their tone is rather snappy rather than woody like an F type. I had a somewhat plain Washburn from that era that was fun to play that I saw on one of my kids friends wall in Poway, CA hanging as a decoration. I bought it for $25 and took it to Taylor's shop on El Cajon Blvd where he removed the fingerboard and shaved the warped neck. I saw a movie on TV of the Sons of the Pioneers playing a very similar mandolin and so I would jam on it at home occasionally with their songs. I traded it to the local music store for a preamp for my Barcus Berry. Don't sell yours, I think their time might be coming.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | If I can get this Kalamazoo up and playable, and play a few songs... I might try and talk my cousin into letting me "borrow" the Lyons and Healy ... for a while!!!
My cousin has lived in San Francisco for a long time, we were pretty tight back then... My first wife and I stayed with him before we were married, while I went to commercial diving school in Oakland... His casa was my casa, for about a year or so... back in '77-'78.
My cousin "played" and still has a Martin Vintage guitar... But says he hasn't picked it up in years!!! Pitty, cuz he was really a good guitar player and a mellow guy when we were kids, cool to just be around, sometimes you don't realize how much love you have for someone to you get down lifes highway and look back were you've been...
I can still remeber listening to Fleetwood Mac as we went over the Oakland Bay Bridge to school one morning... You gotta love those memories...
The special moments we all remember were just a string of life's myriad of events, at the time...
After a few decades you realize what special places they have found in your heart and if you are lucky to relive them again, with the same people, the love is rekindled, and feels even better than you remebered it to be, even more special, when it is a relative you haven't seen for 10 years...
My cousin was the one that got me longing to play the guitar, oh so many years ago, when my dad brought home 4-5 guitars from Japan, in the 60's... (from the other post)
My cousin was 13 or 14 at the time and happened to be visting from Pittsburg, that year, when my father came home with all those guitars...(Neil, my cousin, could just pick up ANY guitar and fly thru all the folky, Dylan, Biaz hippy music you ever heard...
He told me over dinner last summer as we passed the Lyons/Healy Mando back and fourth that he didn't know how to play the mando... So he might be game if I hand carried it back from California, as we normally vacation out there. My wife has a sister that lives in Valencia, (45 minutes EAST of LA)and we have 3 cousins from her family that we have a great time with...
Always loved San Francisco, it is a very cool town... My 10 yr old daughter gets a big kick out of the street vendors, down by the water... and wants to go back...
One of her favorites, is an old black guy, that sits on the side walks "hiding" behind some bushes, he holds in his hands... Unsupecting touristos stroll buy oblivious to the plot, while a huge crowd gathers across the street to watch people get the crap scared out of them, when he pops out of the bushes at just the right moment...
Then his side kick passes the hat, even across the street, as 50-75 people have gathered to watch the antics... and happily throw money his way... Supposedly the guy has been doing this game for 15 years or so!!! LOL's
Peace, Brothas and seesters
"Where have all the Hippies Gone... long time ago..."
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