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Location: CA | A Romanian-made bowl-less Kaman guitar? This would be from the 'other side of the tracks' on the Kaman family tree, I would presume:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/msg/891424440.html
BTW, these things got an overall '4' on Harmony Central reviews. Here's one comment: "The Montana uses four massive lateral braces under a small plywood soundboard. This design has not been used in good guitars since about 1850, because over bracing a small top limits volume and tone quality." |
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Location: NJ | I bought my boss's 2-year-old son a uke last Xmas.
Bought it in my local hometown music store.
It was a Romanian-made Montana (dist. by Kaman). |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I thought this thread was about a town in Montana named Kaman.
[there ain't one, I just looked] |
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Location: Jet City | Man, those Kaman guys'll sell anything. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | we got a copy right on the name Montana just so another company couldn't use it since they had a factory there. They we put the lowest level product we had under that brand. Kind of our way to honor them. |
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Location: NJ | :D |
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| Does beal have Sicilian blood somewhere in the ancestry? |
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Location: Jet City | They fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia," but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Kaman when guitars are on the line!" |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | "Hello! My name is Beal. You keeled my guitar. Prepare to die!" |
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| I have an old "Montana" traditional acoustic wood guitar with the Kaman label still inside.
I found it floating in Long Lake up here in the ADK mtns. The bridge let loose but everything else is like it was never in water. |
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Kaman Montana