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Location: Toowoomba Australia | I don't have a question at this stage but send greetings from Australia. And many thanks to the contributors, I found this site informational and helpful earlier this year while researching an old Celebrity I'd purchased for my wife.
A bit of an intro to me, the wife of my youth and my interest in Ovations. 4 decades ago I was a university student, very much a loner and alone, my only companion a cheap old guitar. First week of my second year this incredibly lovely country girl turned up at the uni as well as at the church I attended. For some reason she treated all the handsome and wealthy young would-be suitors with ignore but went out of her way to chat with me - scruffy beard, long hair and bare feet! What are you thinking girl!! And what's that got to do with the Ovation I purchased her you ask? Bear with me a little.
It was not long before we found ourselves investing all our spare time with each other, oft-times sitting cross-legged in the park; her strumming her 12 string and singing sweetly, me telling stories and speaking my heart to her through my guitar - in those days I could not hold a normal conversation (still can't other than with her). Anyway, within a short space of time I thought to upgrade my guitar and while in a local Toowoomba music store the salesman asked if I'd like to try out this funny looking guitar they'd just got in "for interest" (this was 1977) - a deep bowl Ovation. WOW! The dulcet tone blew me away, and the action was sooo smooth - a bit awkward to hold but if i'd had the money it would have been mine mine mine. As it was, I settled on a nice used Fender. I enjoyed the Fender, but the memory of that Ovation would continue to resonate within my belly.
Decades pass, I am still a loner, but alone no more - its me and my girl (yeah, yeah ... kids and grandkids too). She still has her old 12 string and sings even more beautifully but her guitar is not in a good way and its very hard to get and keep in tune. My belly speaks, its time to find her an Ovation. First came the Celebrity, but then it was hard for me to reach for the Takamine anymore so we NEEDED another Ovation. Welcome the 1868TX, cannot believe how deep and rich such a narrow body can sound - both unplugged and plugged. Now we're adding a mid-depth 1778TX. Bride of my youth sighs! Wellll, she's had 42 years to think about that! |
G'day mates!
