[SEL] OT: WOO-HOO!

[Jeff Allen]

John,

Can't think of a better winner for the contest. No Portland, and Jane sick, 
you needed this.

Ain't played in some time, and my only guitar is on loan to a neighbor kid 
right now. Saved em some money when she gets tired of it.

Sweet looking guitar and looks much like the ones my buddy makes. Way out of 
my league. Got to see the only twelve string he ever made a while back. 
Intonation is still perfect after 25 years and the owner turned down a 15K 
offer for it. The archtop f-hole with the florentine cutout he made would 
bring tears to your eyes. I have some pictures if you want them contact me 
off list. The luthier playing his 12 string.

Who did that Pete guy play with? Lame, but I had to do it. :-)

Regards,

Jeff Allen
Arvada, Colorado USA

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Culp" <johnculp at chartertn.net>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:05 PM
Subject: [SEL] OT: WOO-HOO!


> 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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