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Location: San Francisco | My trusty and trusted old friend, a 1968 Ovation Balladeer (serial # 2891, with the shiny roundback), was stolen yesterday from my locked car- from inside my locked garage, no less- when theives broke into my garage from the back...
It looks very understated compared to later editions of this guitar. The bowl is larger, the soundhole inlay is less ornate, it has plain round dot inlays instead of the diamond markers in later models. The bowl appears smooth and shiny instead of the rough, mottled finish of the Ovation from even 1 year later. The top is natural finish. It also had a Fishman Matrix II pickup installed, so at first glance it appears to be a non-electrified model. It was in it's original leather gig bag.
I am the guitar's original owner, having purchased it in April of 1968.
Please pass the word and be on the lookout for this instrument. If you see it I can be contacted through this board via email.
Thanks. This was my first post here- I wish it was under better circumstances. |
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Location: San Francisco | As a replacement, I am considering a Balladeer c. 1972. I always considered that my '68 sonded noticeably better and fuller than the models I've heard from '80 and later- any opinions on a '72 vs. my missing '68? |
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Location: Georgia USA | I was gonna say... I guess the replacement value would be steep, and insurance will get you just about anything you want, right? |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Was that the only thing stolen, or was it among several things? I don't want to sound like a smarta*s, but why was it in your car, in the garage? Mine are either in the house, or at my lessons when I take them. Never in the car, except for the trip there. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | What a bummer. Thanks for posting the serial #. I hope you are able to recover it, and that you didn't lose other items of value to you. |
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Location: New Orleans | Other than reporting the stolen guitar to the local authorities, I'd call every pawn shop within a 100 mile radius and give that serial# and description. You never know. Then again, maybe it's someone you know? It is odd that they ripped your guitar from your car IN your garage. For them, it was either a lucky hit or they knew about it. Sorry for your loss, I hope you can get it back! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, BeBe is correct....contact all the local pawn shops and then check back again in a couple weeks. I would think that something like a guitar would be unloaded fairly quickly. |
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Location: San Francisco | Yep, all the pawns, all the guitar stores, and the police have all been notified. I check the pawn shops at least weekly,
Normally it would not have been in the car- it was there only a few hours, and the garage was locked. Yes, it was stupid. I don't think it was targeted- I think the thieves were looking for bicycles. My upstairs neighbor's bike , very expensive one, was gone and 2 cars were broken into. In my case the theives just "lucked out."
There's a '72 on my local CraigsList for pretty cheap- any opinions on a '72 vs. a '68, sound/ feel wise? |
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Location: New Orleans | The guitar was stolen yesterday and you're saying that you check the pawn shops at least weekly when only one day has gone by. Please make it make sense, it's glaring at me. :confused: |
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Location: SoCal | Checking the pawn shops at least weekly, for a guitar stolen yesterday... maybe he meant that he checks out pawn shops all the time for good finds and now he will be on the lookout for his 1968 Ovation Balladeer (serial # 2891).
ahammer, Look on the police report. Can I have the badge# and name of the officer who took the report. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'll bet he meant... "*I'LL* check the pawn shops..." |
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| He might have meant (Lord how you guys murder the language) "So where do you guys keep all these FD14s?" |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | not JUST language, Schroeder... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Most FD14's are kept under lock and key....or hanging on the wall for easy access :D
Schroeder....that guitar should really be on your short list to snatch up as soon as another one turns up. As has been mentioned here many times, one of the best...if not the best...sounding Ovation ever! |
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| Welcome home BB. Has it arrived? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | and it's "Quad B" :cool: |
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| "and it's "Quad B" "
Yet again I have absolutely no idea what that means. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Mine is somewhere tween Indiana and Vahgenyah, hopefully NOT at a pawn shop. |
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| Or locked in a garage somewhere in between...... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'm pretending I didn't read that... |
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Location: San Francisco | The theft was actually Memorial Day. Misspoke myself. Sorry to cause such a stir! |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Originally posted by ahammer:
The theft was actually Memorial Day. Misspoke myself. Sorry to cause such a stir! Don't worry about causing a stir. I like to stir things up myself once in a while. Ain't that right Schroeder? :D :D :D |
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| You have my sympathy. The horrible part is that those morons don't know what they've got.... |
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Location: San Francisco | Yeah, Schroeder, that's a whole 'nuther level of misery... |
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Location: SoCal | ahammer, check out this site, stolen guitar registry |
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