Oops. Look what I did.

[Bilbo]

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I am sorry. I did a bad thing.

[ezbass]

Mmmmm,

[Bassnut62]

Hnnnhh? NOthing bad here!

[RhysP]

Custom Balladeer?

[paul_5]

Proco Rat. Nice.

[Bilbo]

Custom Legend. It's chuffing lush....

[gary mac]

Very lush.

I was working on a similar looking Balladeer for a customer yesterday, impressed with the quality but not so much with the dirt on the fret board.

[RhysP]

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Custom Legend. It's chuffing lush....
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Very nice indeed.
Would you like to borrow my Al Dimeola guitar tuition book?

[Dandelion]

Music stand..

With the score to Moondance on it..

[Bilbo]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1490788528' post='3267968']


Very nice indeed.
Would you like to borrow my Al Dimeola guitar tuition book?
[/quote]

I already have several

[Bilbo]

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1490789313' post='3267974']
Music stand..

With the score to Moondance on it..
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Or a Pastorale by Scarlatti ;-)

[RhysP]

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I already have several
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Hope you've had better luck with them than I have.

[leftybassman392]

[Bilbo]

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Hope you've had better luck with them than I have.
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My favourite is the Cielo De Terra book. I can only play one track all of the way through (Enigma of Desire) but the bits I can execute are getting longer and smoother. I guess it is about realising that you don't have to be able to do the whole thing for it to be a valuable learning experience. I also have some of my own transcriptions of his stuff that I revisit occasionally.

[RhysP]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490800822' post='3268167']
My favourite is the Cielo De Terra book. I can only play one track all of the way through (Enigma of Desire) but the bits I can execute are getting longer and smoother. I guess it is about realising that you don't have to be able to do the whole thing for it to be a valuable learning experience. I also have some of my own transcriptions of his stuff that I revisit occasionally.
[/quote]

Have you got the Al Dimeola guide to chords, scales & arpeggios book?

[Bilbo]

Yep. And the picking technique book, three different books of solos and several Piazzolla charts. Hours of fun.

[Bilbo]

After playing it acoustically for a couple of days, I plugged it in. Dead as a dodo. Changed battery. Nothing. Different leads and Amps. Nothing. XLR connection. Nothing. It appears that my electro acoustic guitar is entirely acoustic :-D Buggery bollocks. It's now got to go back to Germany for a holiday.

[RhysP]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1490865498' post='3268570']
After playing it acoustically for a couple of days, I plugged it in. Dead as a dodo. Changed battery. Nothing. Different leads and Amps. Nothing. XLR connection. Nothing. It appears that my electro acoustic guitar is entirely acoustic :-D Buggery bollocks. It's now got to go back to Germany for a holiday.
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What a pain in the arse.

[Bilbo]

I have me more option to try courtesy of the interweb but I have emailed Thomann for advice prior to asking for a replacement. I understand that replacing the preamp is easy so that may also be a possibility but, yes, it's a ball ache.

[Bilbo]

Naah. It's a deader. Off to Deutschland it goes.

[Bilbo]

Just dropped it off at a DFS place. Won't go until Monday but that's OK. Thomann have agreed to replace without any problems so I just have to wait a little while longer for the dream guitar.

[Bilbo]

And we're off again. This one works!!

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[RhysP]

Marvellous! Happy with the amplified sound?

[Bilbo]

That's when it comes into it's own, RhysP. I tend to think of electro acoustics for recording rather than live but I may be going out as a duo playing guitar as well as bass so it's all good.

[RhysP]

It's certainly a looker.
Is this one of the ones with the contouring on the bowl? I haven't played an Ovation for years but they look like they'd be more comfortable than the older round back versions.