Hi Dave,
I think you'll like that new lacquered Celebration!
Poor Flip keeps hand-picking one for himself and then has to give it up!
I'd started my Celebration review here and then had to give it up for a while . . . due the the fact that the original silver Celebration he'd simply sent me for my opinions on got sold . . . to a friend I play with.
By that time, I'd already notified Flip that I'd realized that I had to have that horn . . . but the fellow I'd lent it to for evaluation thought otherwise . . . and bought it out from under me.
So, I asked him to pick me out another I'd love just as much . . . and he sent me HIS silver one. He hasn't had a bunch made up in gold yet, so he was playing a silver one.
When he wrote me he'd decided to send me his personal silver one that he'd never even left the house with, I initially felt bad . . . until reading further when he wrote "I really don't like polishing silver anyway, and I found a certain LACQUERED one I like just as well.
Thus . . . Flip has now lost TWO that he'd picked for himself . . . and you've gotten a really special instrument!
Enjoy!
Tom
BTW, I'm almost to where I can test and post more reviews of this second one that I now own.
These things take time to do . . . and about ten days ago I became a proud grandfather for the first time . . . and my son lives 130 miles from here. Thus, I've been playing gigs on Saturday nights and then driving on Sunday to see the little guy. Here's his photo.
My son and daughter-in-law named him the "fourth," which is quite an honor. I just wish my dad, W.T. Turner, Sr. had made it another five years to see it happen. Then again . . . he WAS there, looking down from Heaven.
