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Location: Newington, CT | Very first guitar: A Fender MusicMaster -- purchased when I was 19. Moved on considerably since then, to a Les Paul, several Strats and others. Then took a LOOOOOOOOOONG hiatus (Darn!), picked up a low-end Takamine...waited some more years, and bought my first Ovation: an Ultra 2071 -- new, at Daddy's. Paid too much for it, but that's ok. I got from it what I wanted to get from it, and I still own it. It's a fine guitar, by the way. Great playability, great sound, fine electronics, a great feel. Nowadays, it's a FINE $400 guitar.
Since then, I picked up a Gretsch 6117 that's one of the finest guitars I've ever played. It makes me seem like a much better guitarist than I am.
Oh, and I picked up about 15 more Ovations and Adamii...the three Adamas 2080's are just gorgeous! Can't say enough about them! The FD-14 is nicer than words can convey. The 1681-5 is more wonderful than I can express. The two 2007 Collectors's are spectacular. One word: Balance.
All have served me REALLY well in terms of "being-more-than-I-expected-and-my-expectations-were-not-small-to-start."
Oh, and I also have a Gitane D-500 that I really like.
And, last but not least, on a whim I bought a Rondo Agile 2000 with a 1.75 nut width. $200. Worth it and then some. The FD-14, the Gitane and the Rondo have convinced me that I'm much more comfortable with the wider nut. I have pretty mondo hands, after all. |
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January 2006
Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My first guitar was a sunburst Silvertone acoustic received for Christmas in 1959. It cost my Dad $25 from the local pawn shop. A year later, I was loaned a Gibson ES-125T along with an amp that I then used until I moved out of the house in 1969, at which time I gave it back to the owner (a truck driver neigbor). After trashing the Silvertone by running over it with a motorcycle in the desert in 1973, I bought my first Ovation. |
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April 2006
Posts: 1017
Location: Budd Lake, NJ | My first guitar was just barely beyond the "cheese-box-strung-with-rubber-bands" variety; it belonged to a fellow I was engaged to, and he left it with me for safekeeping while he went to school out of state.
I remember it as small, strung with silk and steels, with a bowed neck that made it impossible to intonate past the fifth fret. After he ditched me, I decided that since I still had the guitar, I'd be playing rings around him when he finally came back to claim it--and I was. :D
By the time I returned it, I was married to the blue-eyed carpenter, and playing my first and most favorite O--my dearly beloved Gertrude. Having her has made all the difference in how I play now, all these years later.
--Karen |
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September 2005
Posts: 3619
Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | 1537 Purchased from a pawn shop in Savanna, GA in 1987. |
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March 2009
Posts: 715
| My first guitar was a cheapo Memphis guitar, which I got for $50. The $50 also included a crappy Holmes amp.
I had to get rid of the Memphis because I found out the neck was warped, and I started having trouble with the 5 way switch.
Michelle |
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My first guitar was my first Ovation...
