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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I just yanked a nose hair that was curly as a ballpoint pen spring...
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | You ain't old until you have to pull a crop of those from the inside of your ears. The nose ones are easy to keep tamed down, but those ear hairs are tenacious as a pitbull. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | You just reminded me that I was going to pluck a couple of wild ones in my eyebrows this morning and forgot. Maybe I'll just let em grow and try a new style of combover. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Paul, not sure what it means but I probably agree. |
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Location: GA USA | I haven't been the same since my turbo nose hair trimmer went out on me. It's been about a year, and I'm thinking about braiding those suckers.
Jeff, the curl may be due to an improper pluck. You know how ribbon curls when you run the scissors down the strand? You may have grasped the hair to high and slid a bit on the yank. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Very insightful, Jas. I'll get a better grip next time. |
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Location: GA USA | Happy to help. I don't know much about guitars, but pulling nose hair is my forte. |
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Location: closely held secret | Too late, they've gone.
Seemed to be in quite a hurry, too. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Bruggy,
Don't you have some lip stick to put on?
brainslag,
good grooming is essential when playing out. I'd like to think the OFC offers advice not only on Ovation guitars, but useful tips on performing as well. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Jeff,
I look at it this way. If you are not getting older you are already dead. I didn't get that from Confucius either. It's just that I spent most of last year going to funerals an could not wait for last year to be over. I thought that this year would be better until I found out that two relatives past away this week. One was 46 (my age) and the other one was 53. Sorry about this morbid post but at least most of us can still say that they will be another year older soon and these two relatives can't say that anymore. |
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Location: CT | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
brainslag,
good grooming is essential when playing out. I'd like to think the OFC offers advice not only on Ovation guitars, but useful tips on performing as well. From the intro on the first page of the OFC website:
The purpose of this site is to inform, educate, communicate and share knowledge of Ovation guitars....
I hope that anyone who doesn't know how to groom himself (females excluded, they already know), would go and ask his wife or his mother. |
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Good grooming is keeping your hair out of other peoples food.
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Location: CT | fillhix, what is a 'Dopey Digit Dribble'? |
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I know it doesn't make any sense, and that's appropriate.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by brainslag:
From the intro on the first page of the OFC website:
The purpose of this site is to inform, educate, communicate and share knowledge of Ovation guitars.... Ovation guitars first captured the interest of professional musicians who wanted an acoustic guitar with greater projection on stage. The most visible of these guitarists in the late '60s was Glen Campbell. Every week Glen and his Ovation were welcomed into millions of homes around the country, as America tuned into "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour."
DURING THIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH OVATION, Glen asked for an instrument with a built-in pickup so that he could come out from behind a microphone when he played.
There had been a number of attempts to make a pick-up for the acoustic guitar, but each attempt had flaws. Glen's guitar-playing friend, Jerry Reed had a classical guitar with an under-saddle pickup that didn't sound half bad.
The concept of the pickup was right - piezo crystals under the bridge saddle - but it was made for a nylon string guitar and suffered from tonal and string imbalance problems, accentuated when used on a steel string.
OVATION ENGINEERS STUDIED THIS GUITAR and then set about creating a new pickup of their own. Up until then, playing acoustic on stage either meant standing in front of a microphone, using a magnetic pickup mounted in the soundhole, or using a stick-on "bug" on the soundboard.
None of these worked very well particularly if there were drums or electric instruments in the band.
The engineers saw that a successful pickup would have to have the right balance sensing top vibration and string vibration. Getting the balance right would give the best acoustic tone and the greatest volume.
Their solution became part of the first professionally accepted acoustic/electric guitar ever made. That pickup is still in use today on the acoustic/electric Ovations. The sound is well balanced, the output is very high and the saddle is properly shaped for accurate intonation.
Piezo pickups have a very high impedance, which means that the sound can change over long cable runs. In order to prevent this, Ovation designed a "buffered" preamp that lowered the impedance, preserved the tone and controlled the output.
This was the beginning of the acoustic/electric guitar. Bill Kaman recalls, "Our first preamp was a very clean design. It had two contour filters to enhance the "acousticness" of the sound, and combined with bringing the impedance into the right range, the guitar sounded very rich and full. The first preamps were volume only. Later we added a tone control to the circuit as well as offering a stereo preamp.
"IN THE BEGINNING ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THE GUITARS we built had pickups. Ten years later, 90% of our guitars were acoustic/electric. The truly amazing thing is that it also took about 10 years before any of our competition began to offer acoustic/electric models as standard in their line."
While the Ovation pickup has remained the same, the electronics have kept pace with the players' needs and sound reinforcement technology. Over the past 25 years, Ovation has maintained its leadership as the dominant acoustic electric guitar in the world. |
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I thought Dopey Digit Dribble was when you drool on your guitar while playing. Not that I do that. |
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Location: GA USA | Slag, you may not have read the owners manuals on Jerome's site...
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