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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I know this question has been asked before, but it has been a while, so I'm throwing it out there again ...
If you could own/play only ONE guitar ever again in your lifetime. Which ONE would you choose? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Guess I'd have to go with my 1758-6p: Incredible 12 string guitar...
Glad I don't have to choose just one...cuz:
My 1948 Martin D-28 is awesome...
and my Adamas I's are sooo nice...
Variety is the Spice of Life |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Collings or Takamine or Adamas.
Impossible to answer. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Having only played a precious few, I don't feel I could answer that question until I've played Oh, about 50 more!! |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Tough one. When I moved here, I sold all of my acoustics except my black Legend, but now that I have my Morgan Monroe, it would be hard to choose. I guess if it came down to it though, I'd pick the Legend. We've been together for so long, it sounds incredible, plugs in, and it has never let me down. (I'd cry though, to have to part with the Morgan.) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I agree a difficult question. And I already have such difficulty 'thinning the herd'...
Are we talking about guitars we already own, or the Adamas that I wish I owned? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Book Elite |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Dave, your're a funny guy |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Gotta admit he's got that marketing thing down pat... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I almost laughed myself to death when I read the title to this post. One guitar? OK, if it was one, it would be my 000 17S. |
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Location: big island | it would have to be one that would work very well for both fingerstyle and strumming. so i choose the collings cj i do not own...yet. |
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Location: Utah | The 2007 Collector's is really a very fine guitar. I love playing it, and I love listening to it. I could be happy with this for a very long time.
But there are a lot that I would like to sample. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | My next one!!!!!  |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | My gold top Gibson but to be sure, I would have to play a lot of others first. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Are we talking about guitars we already own, or the Adamas that I wish I owned? Choose ANY guitar... Not just one you already own |
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Location: Scotland | That's kinda like asking a painter to choose only one color.
Which would be beige, obviously. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
Which would be beige, obviously. I would have guessed MAUVE! |
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Location: seattle | depends what day it is .. |
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Location: seattle | better to ask - list top five and in order - but then the order would change - depending on what dahy it is :( |
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Location: seattle | today - I think it would be my Martin d42 (signed by stephen stills) :) |
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Location: seattle | 2 weeks ago it would have been a martin d18ge - but I decided to sell it - since I got the 2178 ultra |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Don't feel bad any of you, because I haven't been able to decide yet myself. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | A 1965 Les Paul. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Another Original Slothead! |
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Location: SoCal | Blackie, EC's old guitar. Then I'd sell it and buy something else and reitre....... |
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Location: Scotland | let's re-interpret the question a little.... Just one guitar for fingerstyle in standard tuning, just one for fingerstyle in open tuning. Oh, I got good at that tuning so just one for a different open tuning, just one for strumming, just one for slide, just one lap guitar, just one for the beach, just one for the drunken jam-sessions, just one back-up guitar for each of those others, just one 12-string, just one mandolin, just one acoustic bass. Oh yeah, that was fun so just one electric bass. And an amp for it.....
Now see what you've started? |
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Location: Agawam MA | It's a tough choice, but I would take my 1681-7. |
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Location: Scotland | What? to cover all of that?!!!!!!! |
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Location: SoCal | Talent will out...... |
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Location: Scotland | Like you'd know..... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I'm sure he's heard... |
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Location: SoCal | I know enough to pick a guitar that would set me financially for life. Anything else I need to know? |
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Location: Scotland | How to play it? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | let's re-interpret the question a little.... Just one guitar for fingerstyle in standard tuning, just one for fingerstyle in open tuning. Oh, I got good at that tuning so just one for a different open tuning, just one for strumming, just one for slide, just one lap guitar, just one for the beach, just one for the drunken jam-sessions, just one back-up guitar for each of those others, just one 12-string, just one mandolin, just one acoustic bass. Oh yeah, that was fun so just one electric bass. And an amp for it..... Exactly!!! |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
How to play it? I could afford lessons..... |
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Location: Location Location Location | My current favorite is the mint, unplayed, 1981 Balladeer that I bought from a fellow OFC member a couple of months ago. It seems to be in a hurry to open up, being 27 yrs. old and unplayed, and it seems to be doing so at a galloping speed. |
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Location: Scotland | I own 5 lap steel guitars. I justify that by the fact that 2 are acoustic and 3 are electric, and I use way more than 5 tunings, so I actually need some more. That argument does not hold water when your life-partner needs something frivolous like a sofa or a dishwasher or clothes. I've tried to play a sofa and it sounds terrible. |
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Location: seattle | Originally posted by FlySig:
The 2007 Collector's is really a very fine guitar. I love playing it, and I love listening to it. I could be happy with this for a very long time.
But there are a lot that I would like to sample. to me the best looking ovation of all time!! |
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Location: Colorado | I'd own the one that always stays in tune |
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Location: NJ | ". . I'd own the one that always stays in tune . ."
Ah, . . the SlotHead. Good Choice.
I'll have what the Gentleman from Colorado's having . . . |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
And an amp for it..... ...and another amp for that one over there, and another amp for those three, and big stack for this little one here, and a nice warm acoutic amp for these six here, and another one to fit inside this ATA case, and... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I don't know enough alternate tunings. Nobody tell SWMBO that it's really easy to change tunings with the built in tuners, OK? |
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Location: PDX | A McCollum Meghann Guitar. My teacher has one and it is, hands down, the best sounding and playable guitar i've ever had the pleasure playing.
Yep, one of those and i'd be quite satisfied.
I only play fingerstyle and only rarely play alternate tunings, rarely play slide, not interested in a lap guitar, hate the beach, don't do drunken jam-sessions, not fond of the sound of a 12-string, can't play the mandolin, or the bass.
So yeah, just that one would do.
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Location: Chicago | Today, I'd have to say my newly modified Adamas 1581! |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | I have my one--my Gertrude, hands down. There may be prettier (like my Jewel), more masculine (like the 2080), louder (like a 1537), more balanced (like an original slothead), attention-getting (like one of those flashy white Melissa Etherbridge models), smoother (like my Tornado)--but I will never love another guitar like I love her.
Oh, from time to time one will come along to inspire a momentary rumble of GAS, and I may think on the Adamas I would have if I could, but no other guitar speaks to me the way she does.
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Location: Marlton, NJ | At this point, I would have to go with the 47. It's got such a full, sweet sound - loud as hell, beautiful to look at and highly collectable. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
I almost laughed myself to death when I read the title to this post. One guitar? OK, if it was one, it would be my 000 17S. Great I'll pick up the CEO tomorrow night. :D
Right now I'd say My OM-18V for a 6 string and the 1758 for a 12 string. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Mike, you'll have to settle for a bowl of chili when you come over tomorrow. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | My 08C is a keeper. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
Which would be beige, obviously. I would have guessed MAUVE! |
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Location: Melbourne Australia | My brand new 2007 Collectors right out of the box - I had the new style case to go with it for 24 hours but that is another story :D |
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| I can't think of a more versatile guitar than a good old Ovation Legend/Custom Legend. If I could only have one that would be it. Shallow bowl cutaway, tho I guess most people would take the deep bowl version. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by muzza:
Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
Which would be beige, obviously. I would have guessed MAUVE! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Plaid.
I like to cover all bases. :D |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | This is an impossible "what if" game that I can't play. If it ever happens, then I'll know. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | I play all my guitars and they are all different, but #47 RI is the one I always keep coming back to. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | OK ... After thinking really hard for the last couple of days (that's how long it usually takes me to process a thought nowadays) ... I've decided that the one guitar I would want is one that hasn't been made (as far as I know), so it would have to be a custom order.
AAA Cedar-topped Adamas I dreadnaut cutaway slothead in tobacco burst, #47 Neck, with deep contour bowl, VIP Electronics, and some of Templeman's carved walnut tuner buttons. (satin finish) THAT would make me happy. |
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Location: Brighty in Blighty | 03C |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by bvince:
If you could own/play only ONE guitar ever again in your lifetime. Which ONE would you choose? David Gilmour’s black Strat.
But ONLY after he is done with it.
Then alone in a large auditorium with the lights from the Pulse tour and plugged into his touring rig. Whoah!! :cool:
Oh, you mean in THIS lifetime? Tough call... But if it really came down to just one guitar, comfort would probably need to be considered the first priority. That said, I might sacrifice the angelic qualities of my sweetheart Adamii for a slightly worn but nicely set up 1619-4 with light strings.
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