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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Where in the heck did this guitar name come from? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Fred |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I thought it was Jeff? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Ultimate Tonal Expression? :p |
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Location: Cicero, NY | It was Schroeder, who not only stole JW's Ute but then turned around and somehow finagled a Ute12, and iffy is spot on. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glad to see Bloomfield didn't think it up. |
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Location: big island | "ute" is short for U681T |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Randy wins the prize. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | WAIT!!! I didn't know there was a prize! Ahh, whatever...Schroeder still coined it and iffy is STILL spot on. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | UTerus. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
UTerus. Mark, may I: UTE 'R Us...? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Not if Whitehead came up with it. |
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| It was me and it was uterus as a play on U681T.
For newer guys - the ute was the first (or at least first in along time) limited production, top of the range, like-nothing-else-in-the-stable guitars. For months the board waited. Al had 12 on order (or thereabouts) and as the months turned to weeks, turned to days, so the hysteria on the board mounted. Then there was the endless wait for UPS/FedEx/Whoever. This is all pretty usual these days but the ute was the first.
When they arrived people were so overwhelmed with the sound that I seriously thought some were going to climb back inside to get REALLY close, hence the U for Uterus jibe.
Then everybody started looking closely and realised that the guitars had been rushed out and a lot of them had binding/finish flaws and a large number of them went back to the mothership to be sorted.
At the time I was a never-played-an-Adamas, didn't like multi-holes and couldn't afford one. So in the best traditions of human nature, I mocked. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Whatever it stands for...I'm keeping mine. It seems to sound better every time I play it. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Native American tribe located in Southern Colorado. I've worked with their chief judge on a few projects. |
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Location: SoCal | All you guys who make fun of the U681T's name are a bunch of PUAssy's..... |
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Location: GA USA | We're not making fun of it. Ute is now the official name. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Not to be confused with a Pick Up Artist which came later. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by MWoody:
Not to be confused with a Pick Up Artist which came later. Would that be the "moody" or the "P.I." model? |
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Location: NJ | Let us not forget that the impetus for that guitar (I'D like t'think, anyway) came from the "buzz" generated HERE over Adamas SlotHeads, that led the Factory to make the initial foray into a "modernized" SlotHead with the three(?) original prototypes . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just reread the thread on the Ute deliveries, which may have been the longest OFC thread at the time. I was a newbie then and stayed quiet, but ended up with Alaskan Fly Guy's Ute. Interesting to see how circumstances and feelings change over a fairly short period of time.
I remember thinking as others did that $1700 was a lot of money for a guitar. It still is, even though I've now played at least one that cost almost ten times that. I like the Ute better. |
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| I think cliff's right about where the impetus to do it came from and I don't doubt for a minute that the success of it put the factory in the frame of mind to consider a lot of subsequent things. It was after the ute that ever more weird and wonderful custom orders started turning up regularly.
I think the Ovation Marketing Dept owes us all a beer (of course if you've been to a Tour you'll have drunk gallons of the stuff....) |
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| edit - triplicate
itchy trigger finger today |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I think we're very fortunate to have a factory willing to produce one-off customs (or in Al's case, 12-offs) upon request. They could sure just as easily tell us to go pound sand. We may have to pay a little more, but the end result can be so satisfying. I hope they'll still be willing to do this in the future. There's a few things remaining on the must-have list. |
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Location: Jet City | I thought "UTE" was a reference to the movie "My Cousin Vinnie"
He talked about 2 of them. |
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What does UTE stand for?