Ovation Custom Legend with factory installed Roland GK pickup. VERY RARE! Model #R869 Serial #517239 In excellent used condition! This is a very special guitar. It is the top of the line finest acoustic guitar Ovation makes. It sounds spectacular both acoustically and through an amp using the high quality piezo pickup and full featured preamp with onboard chromatic tuner. It has a factory installed Roland GK pickup system for controlling a guitar synthesizer. This model was only available for one year so it is extremely rare and hard to find. (This is the same model that Al DiMeola has been using live for over 10 years. As a matter of fact, Al actually played this one as well... and liked it. The neck feels great and the action is low so it plays like an electric guitar. The Custom Legend features include; abalone trim around the top and an abalone sound hole rosette. The fingerboard inlays are also abalone. The contrast of shimmering abalone against the gloss finish over a beautiful spruce top is nothing short of stunning... This is a guitar that looks as good as it sounds, and it sounds awesome! The Custom Legend also features an ebony fingerboard and gold Ovation/Schaller tuners with pearloid buttons. This guitar is in very good condition for a used, but well taken care of 11 year old instrument. Structurally, it's as solid as the day it came off the line. There are absolutely no cracks in the wood top! There are some very small dings in the finish but they are so small that they don’t show up in the pictures. There is a small dent in the back of the neck (see picture) but it does not effect the playability of the instrument. There is a small knot in the wood grain finish which gives the guitar a one of a kind “birth mark” and adds to it’s unique quality. Here is some additional information about the Custom Legend line from the Ovation website: Abalone Artistry Over 300 individual pieces of abalone shell are hand-inlaid into each Custom Legend, a stunning appearance in any finish. The Custom Legend rosette is also abalone shell in the Ovation oak leaf pattern. Both rank with the finest custom made instruments as examples of pure guitar making art. The Ultimate Spruce Soundboard These AAA-graded tops are the most flexible and consistent Sitka spruce tops available. Only 5% of all our graded tops are chosen for these fine instruments. Notice that the Custom Legend A-shaped bracing are primarily longitudinal, giving the top greater freedom of vibration. The result is a guitar that can pump out a tremendously broad and powerful sound. 5-Piece Speed and Beauty The 5-piece mahogany and maple neck is contoured to a "soft-V", the most ergonomic of neck shapes. The bound ebony fingerboard is decorated with abalone inlays and fitted with nickel silver frets. Each of the frets is crowned, dressed and polished by hand, and then the fingerboard and neck are finished with Danish oil. Includes an on-board preamp with flexible EQ, an anti-feedback notch filter, and a chromatic tuner. The Custom Legend gives you a complete control system built right into your guitar. Starting with four precise bands of EQ (at 80Hz, 800Hz, 6 KHz and 10 KHz) plus a very steep (30dB/octave) notch filter that can kill feedback one note at a time. The output has an ultra-quiet 104dB signal-to-noise ratio and there is an XLR balanced line out with phantom power. Finally, there is also a chromatic tuner built right into the preamp. Factory installed Roland GK 13 pin divided pick-up This version of the Custom Legend comes with a factory installed Roland GK divided pickup for controlling 13 pin guitar synthesizers including the Roland GR and VG series of guitar synthesizers. A list of compatible products include; the GR-1/09/20/30/33/50, VG-8 & 88, VGA-3 & 7 and all Axon products. Paypal preferred. Payment due within 48 hours of auction end. We will ship worldwide using USPS - global. E-mail with shipping address for international shipping quote. For shipping costs in the contigious United States, use shipping calculator.