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Location: Monroe, Ohio (Cincinnati) | Paul,
Are you sure my old Applause has a laminated top.
It was manufactured in Moosup, Conn. USA sometime in the later '70s unlike the current Applause models that are manufactured outside the U.S.
I have a Fender with a laminated top, and two Seagulls with solid tops, and it looks like the Seagulls' tops.
I thought that maybe since it was made in the USA in the later 70's it may have been part of that original run of Applause guitars that were threatening to Ovation dealers.
Whatever the top is, it certainly has great sustain and volume and shines over any laminated top guitar I have played, including the current Applause and Celibritys. (Celibrities?) |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Mark, we've been through this here before, it IS laminated. I have a 1976-vintage Applause AA14-4 that I bought new in January 1977. It sounds very, very good, but it is still laminated.
I think of it as "The Magic Of Moosup".
Roger |
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Location: Monroe, Ohio (Cincinnati) | Thanks Roger,
If the current Celebrity and Applause manufacturers could find out how to reproduce the "Magic of Moosup", I think they would really have something. |
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Location: NJ | I would suspect that some of that "Magic of Moosup" on those Applause's came via osmosis from those early Adamases that were being built in that same building at that time. ;) |
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