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Location: Converse, Texas | Any of you who get Ovations for Christmas and come onto this website to tell us all about it, you MUST post pictures! That way we can all salivate! |
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Location: south east Michigan | UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE UKE :D |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My wife has already given me my present, a "used" (yeah, right) 2002 Collectors Series from our local Guitar Center. Sorry, no pictures yet. It does look like what you see on the Ovation site, though!!!!
Leo Papa("Folklore") has seen it and played it before we bought it. He can attest to it being one nice looking roundback.
His new Folklore is sweet, too!!!! :)
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Location: Upper Left USA | "...Oh Santa Baby! Just one more little thing, with strings! Come on down my chimney tonight!"
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Location: Converse, Texas | Roger, play by the rules: PHOTOS! :D |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Rules are made to be broken.... :D
Pictures of my guitars is not a priority with me, I'd rather spend my time playing them(that's why no gallery), but I'll see what I can do.....
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Location: Midland, MI | If I start taking pics of guitars, my wife will think I'm getting ready to put ProjectViper up for sale. I'd hate to get her hopes up around the holidays, so I'll have to pass. ;) |
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Location: Texas | Well, I am very excited that tomorrow I will finally get my MM68 mandolin!
I am afraid my daughter Katia will be the one playing it most of the time, but I hope to enjoy it too. ;)
We plan to play a few Xmas carols tomorrow and she can play the mandolin while I play my blue Adamas I.
Will post pictures.
Serge
www.sergiolara.com :cool: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Too cool Serge!
As I was pulling out from the house this morning to start my Xmas shopping I passed the UPS Truck in my neighborhood. Knowing it is too early, it was exciting to hope anyway. I should have some veneers for pick guards, a 1624, some polishing stuff from StewMac and Deacon body coming in the day to 2 weeks! There was a Gevalia box at the door though!
Time spent with Loved Ones, Music, anticipation and Music (I like the music). |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | A picture of my 2002 Collectors is now in the Gallery under "Old Applause Owner".
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Location: south east Michigan | Hmmmm. There was a Uke....a uke t-shirt...a uke stand...a uke pitch pipe and uke strings.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cool! |
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Location: Tennessee | Now THAT has gotta be one of the top pictures of 2004! A virtual tie with the M,pi/SO Christmas uke pic. ;) |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Is it Art mimicking Life or Life mimicking Art!
Then again, its just Brad living out a Uke T-shirt fantasy! Go Brad!!
I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules. This is great though. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Gonna rock that uke, rock it all night long..... :D
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Location: Vernon, CT | You can't spell the work puke without the word uke! Play On!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules..."
Where is this pic? I wouldn't wanna miss that!
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Location: Upper Left USA | It resides in the Louvre... Ok, it's in Cliff's gallery
Big gifts
I want it on a Tshirt! |
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Location: SoCal | If it goes on a t shirt, I got dibs on the first one. XXL. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | The picture of Slipkid and his Ovation uke has become my Ovation for Christmas gift. Ukes have a special significance for me because my mother loved them and it was probably the first stringed instrument I ever saw.
Brad, get some old Hawiian records and a grass skirt and make a Videotape featuring all that good stuff. You playing please, your wife in the grass skirt.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | "I still think the Moody-Angelo in the Sistene Chapel rules..."
That is truly a classic... In every way. Put that on the OFC available goody list and I bet you would sell a bunch...
TOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | :D
I'll take one t-shirt in each color...size L.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Santa came a few weeks early on some of these but checked our list for:
New 6751 12 string Standard Balladeer
Our "bible" "THE" BOOK "History of Ovation" by Carter
New Keth Urban DVD with some killer videos
3 tickets to Keith Urban Concert, 1/30/05
Alison Krauss Live Performance dbl CD set
Bunch of new single strings to try "Alternative Tunings" on the 12 string
Found a Kalamazoo(Gibson)circa 1925 or so Mandolin in the bedroom, I forgot about and would like to set it up, for my 10 yr. old daughter...
Happy Holidays to you and yours from:
the wife, the daughter and yours truly and newest arrival... a 13 week old, 6 lb., blk/tan dachsund puppy... that melts the hearts of anyone who sees "Precious"...
2005 should be one hell of a year, in ALL respects !!!
Ab
PS Posted twice cuz I am pretty EXITED about my new 12 stg Balladeer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Ab, you should be excited, the 6751 is a great guitar....bang for the buck quotient is very high!!!
A 1925 Kalamazoo mando???? Couldn't be a cheaper knock-off of a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 or A-5 could it???? Arch-top???? Flat-top???? Just curious.
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Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | Ab, you should be excited, the 6751 is a great guitar....bang for the buck quotient is very high!!!
I agree, stepping up from a celeb cc026 was a big move for my skill level... but I find the wider neck easier to play... and I love the "voice" of the 12 string...
A 1925 Kalamazoo mando???? Couldn't be a cheaper knock-off of a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 or A-5 could it???? Arch-top???? Flat-top???? Just curious.
Roger
Not sure what your trying to say... it is a genuine article, we traced back how many years my coworker's grandfather had played it and we landed around 1925-1930 tha's why I said "circa 1925 OR SO" (Al P. had said it was from the 30's... Could be not sure yet... It IS a round back AND a Archtop...
If someone would tell me, or send me THE link on how to post some pics, I'll try to get a shot of it up if you want... (searching gets TOOOOO manty hits when one of you pros out there no just the right post to link with...
I'll also find out more about (the Kalamazoo) from the Mando contacts, I received from this "other' post...
Roger did you read this post on Mandos I made???
MY Grandfather(I am talking about mine (AB's) not my coworkers...) had Mandolin, a Lyon and Healy model A, which looks just like this one:
http://www.chinatogalway.com/Lyon%20and%20Healy.htm
I recently saw it on a summer trip thru San Francisco this past summer, my cousin rescued it from the attic, from our grandparents estate... I remember seeing the case as a kid and thought it was a "baby" guitar... I don’t remember even opening it up!!!
Still has original case that is worn but all still working, strings and tortoise shell pics, from the last time my grandfather played it... (I never saw him pick it up and we lived next door to him since I was 5 years old and I am 51 now!!!
My research after seeing (just the case) for the first time in 40 years or so, revealed it’s brand name, model and heritage... It proved it to be valued at $2500-$3000. It is in perfect shape with aged finish... The history of that mando was fascinating to discover... Unfortunately the info and pics I took are in another computers hard drive that is sitting idle in my daughters bedroom, next to another computer she uses... I could get a copy from my cousin whom I researched it for…
It is unique in and of it's own right, not your Bill Monroe sort of instrument as I recall... Has a unique voice,... (they made funny looking “script” letters back then I THINK it was a model “A” Anyway it was the best one that company made… The story behind the music store was just as fascinating to read as the Mandolin itself… The company is no longer in business it has been swallowed up by a conglomerate, but in it’s day they were one of the largest music stores around and I think they had stores in Chicago and New York City… Family owned, father son deal I think…
Roger the Lyon and Healy model A was a piece of art!!! The peghead looks like a miniature base fiddle with scrolls and exquisite workmanship... I made my cousin promis to never let it get out of the family...
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