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Best wishes to all. Let's hope that next year will be kinder than this one. A couple of carols: O Come O Come Emmanuel (trad.) and O Men From The Fields (Padraic Colum / Arnold Cooke). https://app.box.com/s/1bzunyq6y4ixakpzw9e4h9pvgfr33sta Stay safe.

You might find something here: http://www.ovationgallery.com/serial-numbers.html

Hello and welcome You could try to track down a Takamine dealer and see if they can help. Other method is to measure the size of the hole and the profile on the guitar side and visit Ebay or Amazon to try to find one that will fit. Good luck.

Great stuff, Deepend. Nice one.

Thanks, David. I find I'm slowing down a lot of the covers I do. Seems to me better that way.

"I Threw It All Away" by Dylan https://app.box.com/s/tv43k090u56myvvw09m04a53016a7t3o

"Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" by Dylan

Hey Verence! How are you doing? Yeah - things are a bit quiet here these days but a few of us are doing our best to keep it alive. We would all welcome a VOM song from you.

PS. Hello and welcome to the forum. PPS. Morris guitars are very good.

I would say January 2004. Japanese, Korean and Chinese makers often use this type of serial number: first two digits = year, second two digits = month, last digits = sequential number as made.

Deep and Cats. Many thanks.

I meant to post this on the 6th August but was busy. Anyway, better late than not at all. "I Come And Stand At Every Door" from a poem by Turkish dissident Nazim Hikmet. Translated by Jeanette Turner and set to a melody written by Jim Waters.

It sounds really good, Cats. Nice one.

Of course I'm Roger Waters!! Haven't a clue who that guy above is.

Hello Joe. Thanks for contributing to the VOM. Brilliant playing! Great sounding guitar.

I used a single coil PU with adjustable poles and adjusted their heights to obtain a balanced sound. Works well.

LOL. Yes, bit like deja vu. After trying a few piezo units etc I ended up fitting a cheap and cheerful single coil soundhole PU with a 4.5kh output to my old Eko Ranger. It sounded great.

kujozilla. Fantastic. Thanks for contributing.

Cats: Excellent performance! That old Eko sounds good - do you have it amped via the soundhole PU? Deepend: Lovely song and very well done.

Thanks, David. Well, it was my intention of turning it into a sort of "sticky" thread (rather than the monthly posted VOM - simply because very few people were participating) but couldn't see a way of doing it. Daddymack stepped in and pinned it so now it's a new-style sticky. Next January I'll rename it for 2021 People can post stuff whenever they want now - I'll post something every few weeks and it's great to see you and Cats doing so too. Let's hope more folks come along.

"Helpless" by Neil Young

Excellent PS. The AGF has a different sort of mods . . . . . . . . .

Thanks, mate.

Signed D.C. A song written by Arthur Lee of the 60's West Coast band "Love" - about the band's first drummer, Don Conka

Gill! Great to see and hear from you. Where ya been?