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Location: Toronto | Hi,
All the years I've owned an Ovation, I never new there was a Fan Club site. I'm a new member from Toronto and I bought my Balladeer (1111-4) new in Sept. 1971. Still looks great although it's due for a professional set up which will be the first since ever.
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Location: Tuscany, Italy | Welcome Lawrie !
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| A hearty Welcome to you, Lawrie! That is sweet that you've had the Balladeer since '71 as the original owner. I'll bet it's a tone monster after all these years. |
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Location: Canada | Lawrie, I'm also in Toronto. Where did you buy your Balladeer back in 1971. I remember lots of Ovations in the 1970's handing at the old Millwheel store on Elm Street (sadly long gone). |
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Location: Toronto | Thanks guys. Definately a tone monster. The top has also darkened quite nicely over the years. I don't play it much this time of year, for I prefer that it stay in the case with a humidifier during the winter months. I pull it out and start playing it in the spring.
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Location: Toronto | Originally posted by Arc Angel:
Lawrie, I'm also in Toronto. Where did you buy your Balladeer back in 1971. I remember lots of Ovations in the 1970's handing at the old Millwheel store on Elm Street (sadly long gone). I actually bought the guitar at Steve's Music in Montreal. I was visiting a friend and we were scheduled to play a gig there. He owned an Ovation at the time (and still has his as well) and loved the way the guitar played. Steve's was just a hole int he wall back then.
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Location: South of most, North of few | Welcome Lawrie!! I hope you know what you're getting into here... :rolleyes:
Seriously, a great bunch of guys.
(well.... most of us. :D ) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Welcome |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Welcome Lawrie!
As they say at Pat O'Brien's HAVE FUN! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Lawrie:
I prefer that it stay in the case with a humidifier during the winter months. I pull it out and start playing it in the spring.
Lawrie I don't have that much self-control! :mad:
Welcome Lawrie... And we Love pictures! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Humidifier...??..that`s somethin` I put on the radiator , and top-up every day..and soon we`ll be reachin` minus 20 C..WELCOME to this board .
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Say 'Hello' class!"
"Hello Mr. Mann!"
Welcome to the home of the 'O' obsessed.
(Not to be confused with the home of
The Big O. That's a whole different
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Location: Toronto | What a riot. Thanks for the very warm welcome everyone. I will take a picture and post it tomorrow just to make it official.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Welcome Aboard! When you get a chance you'll have to go back and read some of the old posts. It is amazing how much info you can get here, along with a lot of humorus stuff too. |
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| Originally posted by bvince:
When you get a chance you'll have to go back and read some of the old posts. It is amazing how much info you can get here, along with a lot of humorus stuff too. Just exclude the llamas, hamsters, gerbils peri-anal abcesses, etc. from the search parameters. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Dude... don't be like those stupid kids in those '80's "summer camp" horror films...
Get out. Just leave.
Now. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Lawrie, that comes from a stupid kid from one of those '80's summer camp horror films.
DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, search for postings by Jeff W.
Welcome Lawrie, remember, you have been warned! ;) :D
3 to 1...... |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Lawrie, welcome aboard. I'm a central NY'er who LOVES your little town and, as such, I MUST be most qualified to tell you about our little group here. Any questions you have, just let me know and I'll be sure to point you in the right direction. Stay, contribute, have fun and, please, above all, PLEASE...aw, you know what? You'll figger it out soon enough...
(Hope you enjoy your time here). |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Ok, if you haven't figgered it out already, avoid the one known as JW... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He's gonna do it...
Why do I even bother.
Well, I'm not cleaning up any entrails. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Hi, Lawrie--
The board also has a gentler side, composed of a great group of Ovation female-folk. We are few in number, but just as passionate in our love of Ovations. I, too, have an 1111-4, known to the board as "Gertrude," my ol' lady; our family is her second home, but we've had her for thirty years now. She is the matriarch of my Ovation stable.
Anything you could ever want to know about Ovations can be learned here--and anything you may never need to know about anything else you'll probably learn here, too. ;) :D
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Lawrie:
I don't play it much this time of year, for I prefer that it stay in the case with a humidifier during the winter months. I pull it out and start playing it in the spring.
Lawrie Move to Tennessee. We play them all year round. Sometimes even oudoors. :D
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Location: big island | aloha and warm welcome, lawrie! |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Welcome Lawrie, greetings from "Downunder"
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Location: Chicago | Welcome to the Ovation clan, Lawrie! Like you I have an early 70s Ovation (74 Legend 1117). Honey dark top with awe-inspiring acoustic tone. Just last month I got my second real Ovation inspiration: an 1581-5 Adamas II. I've discovered a new level of quality. It just doesn't stop! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Welcome
can ya post some picts of the 71?? |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Ditto on the welcome!
My name is Paul, and I'm an Ovation player. |
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Location: Toronto | Here are a few pics.
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Location: Jet City | Gosh that's purdy.
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