garthman

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).

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Stay safe.

On 11/28/2020 at 5:34 PM, Micah Thurman said:

I have an older ovation that does not match any online serial number I’m guessing 69-70 can anyone give me a good guess at what I have it’s been in the family since mid 70s the model is 1127-4 serial E115

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

12 hours ago, Deborah said:

I have a takamine g560C with a pick up. I have been playing the uke but decided to pick up my guitar again. When I pulled it out of the closet the pick up space was empty? Sooooo sad! Is there a way to get a replacement? 

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.

12 hours ago, DeepEnd said:

garthman - I appreciated your slower, more moody rendition. Well done. The original seems almost upbeat by comparison, which is odd considering the theme of the song.

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

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

20 hours ago, Verence said:

Hoo boy, it’s been a minute since I submitted a VOM.  Probably about ten years.  I’d like to do it again though.  I’ll try to knock something together.  I wonder if anyone here still remembers me?

It’s quite nice that this thing is still around, regardless.  Really makes me smile. 😊 

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.

1 hour ago, catscurlyear said:

Oh by the way ,it`s nice to put a face to the voice Howard ,nice to meet you .i always wondered if you might have being Roger Waters.... under cover, ha ha ,you do sound like him at times,that is meant as a compliment.

Of course I'm Roger Waters!!

Haven't a clue who that guy above is.

15 hours ago, Idunno said:

Complying with cat's directive -

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

11 hours ago, DeepEnd said:

Using an electric pickup in an acoustic guitar can be tricky. They're designed for steel/nickel wound strings and when you use them with typical bronze wound acoustic strings the plain strings tend to be very pronounced. If you go that route, consider some variety of "acoustic/electric" strings like GHS White Bronze. Martin monels would probably work or maybe D'Addario nickel bronze.

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

6 hours ago, catscurlyear said:

Hi Howard Thanks for the listen .no i`m not using that sound hole pickup, i recorded with two mics one for the vox you can see and one lower down out of shot picking up more of the guitar .the sound hole pickup i have used before but it is too bassy, it is quite an high output pick up 14k or something ,totally wrong, anyway it was a cheapo and it is coming off .i have experimented with an old strat pickup stuck in the sound hole and that is great it is a low output  6k  and is much brighter and sounds realy nice ,i`m gonna fix it in somehow and attach a vol and tone pots  no batterys required, when i can be bothered to get round to it .

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.

16 hours ago, DeepEnd said:

garthman - Well done. Thanks for posting. I was beginning to wonder if it was worth daddymack's time to pin this thread.

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

19 hours ago, daddymack said:

you are most welcome...that is what mods are here for...

Excellent 

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

1 hour ago, daddymack said:

in case anyone is curious...I 'pinned'* this thread for y'all...keep'em comin'!

[*what we used to call a 'sticky']

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

15 hours ago, g6120 said:

 

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