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Location: Zion, Illinois | Why can't I win the Lottery??????
Oh well, my GC 12-String will just have to do.
If I had the money, I'll get it...
Adamas 12-String
later,
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Bradley
That is a beautiful guitar, I wonder why nobody has bid on it yet. I just blew my money on a computer which raises the dilemma, if I don't have a computer I can't look at these guitars, if I do have a computer, I don't have any money to buy them. The lottery is the answer maybe, One of our ex employee's wife won the Texas million and they were nearly broke within a couple of years, and the wife died of cancer shortly thereafter, her condition aggravated, I think, by the pressure of handling the money.
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| It’s a funny thing about impulse buying.
I once bought two Blue & Gold Macaws on an impulse. Last year a 1688-8 came up for sale on ebay late at night with a by it now price. The serial # was 12758. I remembered words in the description like mint and new and last of a generation and before I could stop myself the mouse clicked on the buy it now button and the rest is history. I’m over 50 now and live alone. My kids grown and have moved away as has my wife. I have wondered since why I bought the guitar. Maybe the color or maybe I didn’t wont to see the last of a generation disappear with out me being part of it.
I asked the local ovation Tec rep to look it over after I got it. He was a tall skinny kid with gaunt face and shoulder length hair sporting a hard rock café tee shirt. He opened the case and paused. I’ve never actually seen one of these in person he said. Than jumped upon his workbench stool. Tweaked the tuning and began to play. Now I’m I finger picker my self and spoiled by my old ‘one and seven eights’ Folklore. So finger picking a 12 string is a challenge for me but after 15 minutes of being on the listing side of someone with real talent for finger picking a 1688 I was inspired. He finely stopped and sighed. Got up of the stool, walked to the counter, put the guitar in the case and as he latched it I said, “so what do you think?” Another sigh, I think its fine he said. No, It’s more than fine. It’s the finest 12 string I’ve ever played. Then he smiled. “Now get out her with that thing will ya, I’ve got work to do.
I wasn’t completely honest about living alone. I still have those two Blue & Gold Macaws. We’ve been together 11 years now. The get pretty out of hand at sunset but I learned a Ray Charles arrangement of By By Black Bird they seem to like. I don’t know whether it’s the song, my singing or the blue guitar the like but they fly over and try to sing along the best they can. It’s really quite laughable when I think about it and it seems to becoming a bedtime ritual.
I’ve had a wonderful life that just keeps getting better and I can honestly say with embarrassment or boast that the best decision I ever made was to buy these two birds. And it may turn out that the second best decision I ever made was to buy this 12-string guitar.
It’s a funny thing about impulse buying isn’t it?
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Location: NJ | Mike;
Great story!
Being a bit of a "ParrotHead" myself I can somewhat relate. Over the years, I've owned a Severe Macaw, a Yellow Nape, and a couple of Blue Front Amazons (taught one to sing opera! - which wass really cute,........for the first week or so!).
Lost a couple to errant viruses and to divorce.
I'd love to get another bird or two, but an apartment in Northern NJ is (IMHO) just not a fitting lifestyle for such a cool animal. Perhaps if and when I ever become an expatriate and move nextdoor to Russ, I'll get some more.
For now....I'll just have to save and search for a "Parrot Blue" Adamas 12-string of my own. |
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Location: SoCal | Bradley:
I noticed that somebody named Bradley bid on the Adamas 12. Was that you? |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | Wife said that I could get it if it were under $650. I figured "what the heck". I started at $610 and have already been outbid. I was more or less testing the waters, so to speak.
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Location: SoCal | Good try Bradley. I would guess that this guitar will, if put back up, go in excess of $1200 - $1500. I don't like the black face, but it's a damn fine guitar. |
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Location: Dallas | DAMN! Mike(MSB)! That story is one for the books. I would publish that if I were you....ok....maybe...maybe not. There was no doubt your heart was in it. Anyone with any sensitivity felt like they were right there with you, with the Macaws flyin around while you picked your way through Ray Charles, and sang as only a man can do when he is alone. Well Done.
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Location: Zion, Illinois | She'ld probably let me go that high IF I would have sold off my guitars like I promised her when I bought my Adamas a couple months ago. I just never got around to it. I'll probably put them up over the Thanksgiving weekend.
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Location: SoCal | I know the feeling. I gotta put up a 1763 Classical to raise money for the THead. Wives are so not understanding about that sort of thing. |
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| Dear Santa,
I have been a really good boy this year and if you bring me one of these for Christmas I will leave you milk and cookies. If you bring all three, I will leave you cheese!
Thank you,
Mike
Blue guitar Red guitar Cookies and cream guitar
[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: MSB ] |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Hey Paul, you have to try the 'investment' angle...find old Flender/Givsun stuff to sell at a bit of a profit. Then use the extra cash to buy what you really like for yourself. To be honest, I still have a little tweed, blonde, blackface and early '50's butterscotch decorum in the old guitar room...the 'diversification' sub-angle.
Actually, our wives have to be pretty good sports to put up with us and our gas (guitar acquisition syndrome that is) and listen to one more story about how this new guitar is different than the last one or whatever
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Location: SoCal | Wayne:
You got me laughing with that last paragraph. Actually, my wife is terrific about my "G.A.S." I told her the THead was the last guitar I'd buy. She still hasn't stopped laughing. |
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Location: Dallas | ....my dilemna is the same.....only my bad boy purchases are power tools & weapons....and, NO, it's not to make me feel better about the mediocre size of my unit.... :p |
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Impulse E-Bay Buyers Beware!!!!