My video Gentle Gypsy Lullaby is just me playing my Ovation in my kitchen area while recording my performance using a Zoom Q3 Thank you for the kind words you said about my Guitar Playing. After a year or two of production Ovation turned this into the first Applause budget-line model. The frets were one piece with that T-bar so could never be replaced, the fret board being some epoxy-like material laid down between the frets. The model was the original Matrix with a T shaped metal bar for the neck structure. Surprisingly, all six tuners still turned fairly smoothly. I finally sent it to the Great Balladeer In the Sky just last year. ![]() It then spent the next 21 years as a flower planter. At one point I knocked out the the top and the guitar spent a couple weeks as a goldfish pond until the summer sun hit it which killed the fish. Even when the Ovation became basically unplayable I couldn't bring myself to throw it out. When I got a better, full wood guitar (Yamaha FG-something) senior year of college the Ovation got loaned to at least three people who wanted to learn guitar. Here's a picture of me playing it circa 1980/81. That picture is my guitar in my front yard. Click to expand.Hey Where did you get that picture? Somebody owes me royalties.
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