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Location: New York, NY | This is a great poll. It's nice to see that I'm not the only relatively new guitar player (I'm in the 3-5 year range). Sometimes being on here it feels like everyone was born with an axe in their hands! :D |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | That's because chainsaws hadn't been invented yet.
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Location: Warren,Pa. | BTW, started playing around '68. Saw an Ovation for the first time in '71. A christian musician named Danny Taylor was playing it and I was enamoured with them from that point on.
Bought my first one in '93...an '82 Custom Legend 12 string, Tobacco sunburst. Lost it when our house burned down in '02.
Man I miss that guitar!
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I started playing in '69. Didn't turn to O's until 2000. Got a CS2000. I was soon ready to sell it and go back to the wood backs.
Then I played a 1778 LX.
Never looked back. For the life of me I can't come up with a good reason to spend more on an acoustic (though the siren call of a McPherson still sounds in my ears from time to time). |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I read what steve posted, and I think what the gap from 5 to 11 years shows is that in the first 5 years people are new to it and enthusiastic, and then they put it down and then at year 15 pick it up again seriously and integrate it into their lives. And after 15 years, learn to use their ears instead of the marketing hype, and gravitate towards ovations.
In ovation years, I'm only 13. I feel so young. |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | Started playing 1974 aged 12 and bought my 1617 brand new with Saturday Job savings in 1978. Traded it in very reluctantly to help my brother buy a precision bass which the bugger sold 6 months later for 10% of what I paid....I was mad for a long time :-) |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | 25 years, 44%, now I know why I feel so comfortable here. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Wow! This is the only group I know of where I'm normal! Been playing since '73 got my 1st O in '74. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I'm not sure "old" and "normal" are synonymous anywhere except in Florida, DZ. |
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I'm not sure "old" and "normal" are synonymous anywhere except in Florida, DZ. careful now, DZ, Chatman, Jeff, and myself and a few others might resemble that remark.
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Location: Tucson, AZ | ...got my first Ovation in 1986, been playing since 1959. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Although I'd been introduced and dreamed for an Ovation guitar for many years, I've only been playing it for just a little over 3 years ... from the day I purchased my first balladeer.
As far as playing guitars are concerned, in general, I will conservatively say between 6 to 10 years, since I was never consistent with it. There were gaps in between the times I played and stopped playing ... measured mostly in years, if not months... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Maybe Florida has the oldest population because people just live longer down there. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I'll mess-up the count! I've only been seriously practicing/playing every day since 11/05. I have only OWNED an Ovation since 10/06!
But I have known the 7 or 10 CAGED chords since 1975, and played in guitar/drum circles since then. So I only answered 1-2 years on one, and less than a year on the other.
I'm still a Noobie. |
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Location: ranson,wva | ive been playing on and off since i was 1997. i learned to play on a national steel body. i bought my first ovation in may of 98 at a pawnshop in sommerset pa. it was a matrix. witch i still have in the attic.
i played it for about a year then bought a 1615 pacemaker. sold it in highschool for reasons i wont disclose..quit playing up untill last year. bought a folklore,academy,2 balladeers,1567,1118,adamas and a 1624...still can only play a few chords..lol jason |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | Well.. Lets see.. 10 fingers.. 10 toes... ummm. not quite enough...
Ok..
Started guitar in 63.(damn.. 44 years)
The 1112 in my collection is my first Ovation. Bought it for a student in 74. Then she decided to go the classical route so I kept it for myself.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Les'see, got my first Sears guitar when I was 13, so playing (or trying to...) 38 years. Got my first 'O'....woulda been '72-'73. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Hey Mark, down here if I go to the right neighborhood, I'm just a kid!
They say kids make you feel young, BS, If you wanna feel young hang out with some really old folks. After they call you "sonny" and "kid" long enough you start to believe it! |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Now that I've seen it in writing, I should be much better considering how long ago I started.
Trouble is, just because I started playing a long time ago, doesn't mean I've been PLAYING for a long time. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I think that could describe a lot of us, muzza. I played for a few years when I was young (25 years ago), started really understanding how to play and then all but stopped for various reasons. Now I'm just getting back into the fray and, while I'm loving every minute of it, I'll never catch back up to anywhere near where I'd always hoped I would be.
Doesn't stop me from inflicting pain on anyone who'll listen though... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Tricky - 11-15 for both.
Trouble is, it's opposite ends of the scale in each case! Been playing for the best part of 15 years, and my very first O has just had her 11th birthday...
Just realised that I've been playing for around half my life... had a break of six months in the middle , but that's it. Scary!
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Location: Upper Left USA | "How Long" is a tricky question.
What matters is how much has been crammed in there over a period of time.
My best "learning phases" have been bursts of about 6 months where I feel I've doubled my experience.
What helps most is playing with others, finding Artist's songs that you want to play, working into a band and having some kind of impossible goal or deadline - and meeting it! |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | 23 years Ovation (1 year Adamas)
33 years guitar
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| I did it just like the Ryan Adams tune" played it til my fingers bled... Was the summer of '69." I wanted to play one of those O's, after seeing the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Got one years later.a re-issue! |
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Location: SoCal | which reissue did you get? |
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How long have you been playing Ovations..and guitar? ..(poll)
