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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
most of the time bent over trying to read the print in his song book If you sit up straight they slip off your knee |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You sound like my mother. "Sit up straight. Quit slouching!" |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Captain_Lovehandles wrote:
Opie is pointless? I say thee nay! Oblio was pointless.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Waskel dropped the ball by not putting the word "ovation" in the title. The real stove knitters will see "looking for a new guitar" and not even click it.
Try putting "Selling my Taylor to buy an Ovation" or "Brazillian vs. Lyrachord" in the title and watch the sparks fly. You're right, my bad. I realized it moments after I posted it. It let me change the title of my post, but not the title of the thread.
Fairly civil responses, so far. It hasn't been out there that long.
But reading between the lines...
"you must love better the crisp trebely tone on the ovation"
"I've considered getting a lower end Ovation a couple of times."---"The only real deal breaker for me is the tight string spacing. Aside from that, I'd love to have one."
"my preference is for a good number of other guitars over anything I've ever played by Ovation. I own Taylors, but I like Martins, Gibsons, etc."---"I have friends who are excellent guitarists who love their Ovations. Personally, I don't."
"There are much better guitars out there but, there is absolutely nothing wrong with an Ovation."
Good intentions... but even in these friendly responses I detect a definite bias, a down-the-nose, ugly stepchild sort of attitude toward O's.
Not to mention a certain bit of, "No, really, some of my best friends are (fill in the blank)s". |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "I've considered getting a lower end Ovation a couple of times."
"The only real deal breaker for me is the tight string spacing. Aside from that, I'd love to have one."
I don't believe that there are any 'Cheap' Folklores or Classics. (maybe CC059)
There are some 'Cheap' Academy's floating around, but you won't find them in retail stores.
[I'd love to have an Ovation, if they didn't have that crappy plastic bowl on the back! :p ] |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Valid point about the lack of wide neck Ovations. They really should do a wide neck celebrity. You can get a Folklore for just under $1900, but if you know the right Al, I mean person, you can get an Adamas 1680 for not much more. Seems to be a gap below the Folklore. |
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Location: ms | Ovation needs to offer more guitars with 1 3/4 nuts. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
Ovation needs to offer more guitars with 1 3/4 nuts. Stay tuned ... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Oh, I hate it when people tell me to wait for something. I want it NOW!!!! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Oops, I think the 'cover' is blown...  |
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Location: closely held secret | Dang posers keep stealing my moniker... |
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| Originally posted by TAFKAR:
Valid point about the lack of wide neck Ovations. They really should do a wide neck celebrity. You can get a Folklore for just under $1900, but if you know the right Al, I mean person, you can get an Adamas 1680 for not much more. Seems to be a gap below the Folklore.
1985 Folklore 1614 available. |
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Location: Indiana | So, we're trolling other forums now and observing the response as a group. Then the other forum goes and replies with civility... even the negative wasn't condescending.
Still, we go ahead and fill in the lines for them... all the bad things they didn't say but we know they meant.
Silly.
I'd have to give the win to AGF on this one. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Don't go giving AGF the win until you type 'ovation' in their search box. That's some fun reading. I like this one ...
"The only way I would play an Ovation would be if I had a gig in a jungle and couldn't afford a Rainsong or a CA"
Granted of you typed 'taylor' in our search box you'd get some pretty amusing stuff as well. Guess that's why they are called the Taylor fan club and we're call the the Ovation fan club. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Seriously, this is funny, wadded 'O' & 'T' pants et al...! :cool: |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | So, we're trolling other forums now and observing the response as a group. Then the other forum goes and replies with civility... even the negative wasn't condescending.
Still, we go ahead and fill in the lines for them... all the bad things they didn't say but we know they meant.
Silly.
I'd have to give the win to AGF on this one.
I've been playing my Custom Legend 12 and having a blast: tomorrow morning in church I'll be playing the Taylor 810 Fall Limited and doing the same...
personally I love it! |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by bigB:
Originally posted by TAFKAR:
Valid point about the lack of wide neck Ovations. They really should do a wide neck celebrity. You can get a Folklore for just under $1900, but if you know the right Al, I mean person, you can get an Adamas 1680 for not much more. Seems to be a gap below the Folklore.
1985 Folklore 1614 available. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Patience, Grasshopper. Patience. |
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Location: On the Coast - Halfway between SF & OR | 1 3/4", 1 7/8" bah - bring back the 2". After a lifetime in construction, I need a neck I can really hang on to. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Patience, Grasshopper. Patience. Stop teasing me. I don't have any patience. Luckily I have the attention span of a goldfish.
Why am I feeling agitated? |
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Great deal on a Taylor
