[SEL] OT: WOO-HOO!
John Culp
johnculp at chartertn.net
Wed Sep 15 19:05:12 PDT 2004
I've had quite an interesting day today. Got up really early to take
Jane for a same-day surgical procedure in the next city over
(Kingsport), and spent the whole day either in the waiting room
watching people or back in the room with her (as expected, sick as hell
after anesthesia.) Finally got home with her, and the UPS truck was
blocking the driveway. I could see that he had a box on the porch and
was ringing the doorbell looking for a signature. I pushed the remote
garage door opener, he finally saw us and I signed his computer. As we
pulled in we saw that the big box said "Gibson." My wife, still sick,
aroused enough to say in a rather accusatory tone "You didn't order a
guitar, did you?" "No, not me. That certainly is interesting, though.
Wonder what it is?" As we went in, she said again "You really didn't
order a guitar, did you?" "No, wasn't me!" She said, "Maybe you have a
secret admirer." "If they want to send me Gibsons, that's fine with me.
Hmmm, I have entered a few guitar sweepstakes on the Web." My son came
up from the basement in time to hear that. We went out on the porch and
brought in the big box from the Gibson Guitar company. I opened the
invoice on the outside first, and it said "Web contest winner." I
couldn't stop laughing. Opened the big box and found a fancy archtop
hard case with a Pete Townshend SJ-200 super jumbo acoustic inside!
Also included are 10 sets of Gibson strings, a bag of Gibson picks, a
fancy alligator leather Gibson strap, a sound hole humidifier, guitar
polish of two sorts, string cleaner/conditioner and fretboard
conditioner. Took me a bit to notice, but the guitar's also fitted with
a pickup. No onboard preamp, just a basic piezo. The spec page says
it's a Fishman picked out by P.T. Over on Harmony Central there's a
blurb about it with Pete Townshend talking about it. Says he'd no
sooner smash this guitar than he would his own right hand. It certainly
is a pretty thing, and can be seen here:
http://montana.gibson.com/guitars/J-200/ptsj-200.html It's got a
wonderful sound and gobs of sustain. Smells new! Has a Pete Townshend
signature inlaid in the fretboard, and he's also signed the label
inside it. This is one sweet guitar! At an MSRP of $5198 it doesn't
quite fit in with my cheap guitar collection, but then, free is pretty
cheap!
Now I'm going to be hearing murmurs of "Look at that great guitar! Too
bad it belongs to THAT bozo!"
John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA
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