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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | ... like many newbies (I suspect) I have served my time here in the land of lurk. This time has been very productive: I am very grateful for the advice and information I have gathered during this time from many other board contributors. I've just pulled the trigger on a 1990 Collector's on eBay (I'm essentially an electric player who has come late to acoustics and needs a performing acoustic). As far as Ovations go I have an old 'Applesauce' (love that! ... and what a great budget guitar!) in great shape and a Korean 12 string (also a great player), and now I felt the time was right for a 'proper' USA made Ovation.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Welcome!
Admitting we have a problem is the first step!
We don't look for a cure but we meet regularly! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | First things first Hillwalker; How do you pronounce "Capo"?
Welcome. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | And participating on this board is a sure sign of some sickness.... |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Welcome Hillwalker,
The import guitars are decent with some being great but let us know how well you like the USA model! I think you'll find that there's a big difference in quality and sound....
.....soon you'll get G.A.S. and will need more and more and more and..... :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Welcome!!!
I'm glad you decided to join in.
I wonder how many lurkers we have?
I wonder how many run away in confusion, terror & disgust?? |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Thanks for the comments. Jeff W; I suspect this is a trick question, but I'm afraid it's pronounced 'cappo'. (At least I'm not exploring types of strings or string tubes (whatever they are, hee hee). I would agree that I have a (relatively mild) case of the sickness, but the underlying GAS is well established I'm afraid, and I worry about the future... :) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Hillwalker:
Jeff W; I suspect this is a trick question, but I'm afraid it's pronounced 'cappo'. Well, boys, he's a member of the Templeton Clan. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Brad, I hope that many (if not all) of your lurkers join the board as members (as I just have). I've been very impressed with the 'togetherness' of the board postings, and the overall harmony (and humour (oh dear, another spelling atrocity I fear :) )) of members' contributions here. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Welcome Aboard Mate! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Hillwalker:
humour (oh dear, another spelling atrocity I fear No, no. That's quite right. It's the deliberate delinquents of that 'unexplored southern region' who cock it up! |
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Location: NJ | Rules me out . . . I've been spelling correctly all along . . . |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Originally posted by Hillwalker:
Jeff W; I suspect this is a trick question, but I'm afraid it's pronounced 'cappo'. Well, boys, he's a member of the Templeton Clan. |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Well, boys, he's a member of the Templeton Clan. And only a few miles away from me!
In the civilised world it's pronouned CAH-PO. At NAMM I hate having to force myself to say "G-Band KAY-PO" just for the benefit of you colonials. |
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Location: N.J. | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Welcome!!!
I'm glad you decided to join in.
I wonder how many lurkers we have?
I wonder how many run away in confusion, terror & disgust?? I would think that would depend on how many saw the Grass skirt performance from the factory gig on Youtube. :p :D |
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| Welcome Hillwalker.
Can't afford a car then? |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Ah, someone from Oop North!
Welcome indeed, and glad to have someone else who can say Kappoh correctly! ;) Although my thinking is you did that just to [sp-chk]humor[/sp-chk] everyone...
Isn't it great that Llamas aren't native to the UK?!
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Well thanks to all! I can see from the reception I've received that I'll enjoy posting here (even if I seem to have some problems with my cappos). I'll just continue my long-term campaign to reform and unify the use of the English language as I go... ;) Should be fun... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Do you mean "unify" or do you mean, 'merican tawlkers will be assimulated and resistance is futile? |
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| Relax JW, they don't speak anything remotely like English in that part of the world anyway. You've heard Sting/Knoplfler/Templeman.Did you understand any of them? |
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Location: NJ | Completely. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | British hillwalkers are welcome. Cliff might prefer a streetwalker.
Fell Runners will be thorough vetted. |
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| I've got a cousin who was a Fell Runner. Very strange people. The word "why" just doesn't seem big enough. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | because it's over there. |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | No, I'm not a fellrunner (yep, very strange: why do people DO that?), nor (perhaps sadly) a streetwalker (I think I know why they do that). Nope, I'm a Hillwalker (with a car (thanks Schroeder - although not a very good car ;) - don't think you have many hills in the Souf of England). I actually had a great day today up walking in the Scottish borders for the afternoon. Working on my intelligible English... next stop; assimilation! Ooops! I meant education! |
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| North Downs, South Downs, Chilterns........
Forgive my ignorance - what's a Phiga Virtuoso prototype? And should I want one? |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | Welcome Hillwalker from down near in flat Kent. |
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| Kent's not flat. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | though the beer is... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | A Fell Runner?
Pardon my ignorance (though I'm going to be ignorant whether you pardon it or not), but is that some sort of, well, let's just go right past my feeble guessing if we can - what exactly is a Fell Runner?
And, flat or not, I think I'll take one of those beers to hear this... |
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Location: UK - Canterbury Kent | A very nice pint of Adnams this evening in the local pub. A good glass of Suffolk ale.
Schroeder is right. Kent is not flat, it just hasn't got many hills. |
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| Fells are mountains. Some people race up and down them. If running up a mountain (not on any existing tracks - you find your own way) seems stupid you have to see these guys running down a mountain to understand stupidity at it's very finest. And a race usually goes up and down at least 2 and often 4 or 5 mountains. The participants make triathletes look like couch potatoes and usually hav a body fat measurement in the minus scale.
They are working to isolate the gene so that the practise can be eradicated. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the bio-engineers are having some difficulty catching the test subjects. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Well, that's easy - MtnBikerFred! Your services are required!! Now if we can get one of the Jerseyites on Fred's handlebars with a decent scope, problem solved. If we can sit on the sidelines with a cold pint or two, it sounds like fun all the way 'round.
And they call me ignr..igner..ig...stupid... |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | Now Schroeder, a Virtuoso looks like this...
 http://www.philgawen.com/phigaguitars.htm
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Click on 'tour'; enter 'Phigazone', my guitar is top left in 'Gallery 2'. It's an Iceman with a thru-neck... :cool: |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | I have to say that the very prospect of fellrunning makes my blood run cold.... :confused: |
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Location: Shotley Bridge, Northern England | ... and count me in with Weaser and MtnBikerFred on the sidelines. I'll get the first round of beers... ;) |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I like this guy already. ;) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Story of Weasers life... off with the first guy that buys him a drink. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Hey now - he's got some pretty darn cool git's too.
I've got some lines, you know. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Tell you what,
Tuppy and I will chase them down on our bikes, you guys can take shots at them from the sidelines. Just have the beer and guitars waiting for us at the bottom. :D :p :D :p |
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