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I've played the guitar since I was ten years old. The first song that I have played is Pipeline. This was the number one hit song of the days. Now I still play the guitar but I know a few more songs. I have six guitars, but my favorite is the one that I bought in 1974. It was payday and I was going to buy a brand new Yamaha FG200 Acoustic that was on sale at the music store for 209. I couldn't wait to get off of work and go and get my new guitar which listed at 250.

So it was getting toward the time to get off and I looked at the base newspaper want ads and seen an FG200 with case for only 65. I ran to the front office and talked to the secretary, Barbra and asked her if I could use her phone. When I started dialing the number I realized that it was my work number too. I asked Barbra who this Ted guy was and she said that he works in the Communications Section on the ARC-51 UHF Com. I ran back ther and talked to Ted so he told me to come to his house after work.

I showed up there right away, not wanting to miss the deal of the century on my new guitar. Ted bought the guitar in Tokyo and brought it back on an Aircraft Carrier.

So I came into the house and bought Teds Yamaha Guitar and I was just so happy. Ted then asked me if I knew anyone who wanted to rent the house that he was in, he was moving soon. What a coincidence, I was just looking for a house to rent, so I rented his house.

Ted was a mountain climber so we became mountain climbing buddies with our group from the air base.

Anyway, I went out to sea on the USS Kitty Hawk and brought the guitar back to Tokyo and back home again. It turned out that, that guitar had made three trips across the Pacific Ocean and about 140 times across the equator, and I'm a lucky man to still own this guitar. C. Jeff Dyrek