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From: "Vickie" <[log in to unmask]>

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> Oh Marty, I really like it. It's an Ovation GC6756 LX-Ambk that means it's
> amber faced with a black backside. Ovations are rounded at the back which
> gives it a little extra tone quality, I think. It has gold pegs and turn
> keys. It's real shiny with diamonds in between some of the frets and pearl
> inlay around the hole. It is both acoustic and electric and it has a tuner
> and equalizer on the top of the guitar. It sounds beautiful. I bought it
> at the Guitar Center which is a national chain. We stopped at one in
> Kalamazoo last summer. I felt that overall they were a little on the
> expensive side, but this guitar was marked down from $1800 three times to
> where I bought it at $595. They had another ovation in front of it that
> was a Glenn Campbell style, they called it, and the face had a big crack in
> it and they still were asking $700 for that one. So, I think I got a good
> deal. Boy did it sound beautiful over my big speakers last Friday. Now
> I'll have to do some recordings with it, instead of my 6-string. I'm sure
> you'll know the difference.
>
> However, it's not so much a necessity now to even play our shows or sell our
> cds, since Duane has now started receiving disability money. He'll be
> earning enough to keep us afloat, with my money too. But it's a fun thing
> to do and if we want to travel like we do this summer, I'll need to schedule
> some shows to and from, so we'll have help paying for the fuel to get us
> down the road. Yeah diesel is almost a dollar more than regular unleaded
> gas. Stinks!!
>
> John Jacques told me that it wouldn't be so hard to press on th e strings if
> I tuned it down a whole step and then used a capo to bring it back up to
> pitch so I could still play with Duane. You see we've written out all the
> notes Duane is to play on his bass and I'd have to rewrite everything if I
> left it tuned down. I was having such a hard time playing the F chord
> especially. Even though I was practicing every day for an hour I still
> wasn't strong enough to hold those strings down. So when I untuned it and
> then tuned it with the capo on boy was it easier to play. I was able to
> make it through the whole show pretty comfortably. Even after playing my
> 6-string for the first show we did on Friday.
>
> Well enough of my rambling. Have a happy Easter. Oh BTW I'm now on the VIP
> Conduit with Marcia and John and whoever else is on there. So we'll be
> talking to everyone there.
>
> Again, HAPPY EASTER! And, Mike Hall, don't eat too many deviled eggs. Ha
> ha.
>
> Vickie Rolison
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