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Location: Phoenix AZ | Let's start a list of Book Elite owners. Include what model you have, since there are 6- 12- longnecks, mando, mandocello, viper.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | StephenT28 6 string #512397
Standingovation 6-string #513564
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Location: SoCal | StephenT28 6 string #512397
Standingovation 6-string #513564
Standingovation mandolin #498277
Noah EA68-7LTD #070297 |
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| MSB 6 string #513157
StephenT28 6 string #512397
Standingovation 6-string #513564
Standingovation mandolin #498277
Noah EA68-7LTD #070297
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Thats got to be worth at-least a buck three eighty-five by now. Ya think?
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Location: SoCal | Mike,
I will give you twice that.
I will throw in another buck three eighty-five if you would sign it too.
How much for shipping to Aliso Viejo, California 92656?
Email me your address and I will get payment to you right away. |
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Location: Germany | There's also a bass, look at this picture:
Mandocello, 12-string, Bass, long-neck, 6-string, Viper, Mandoline
But I just have the mando (it's a pity ...)
kid-school mandolin #518710
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Location: So. Cal. | Nice picture, Karl, where did you find it? Did you guys notice the epaulets on the bass is different (innies) than the rest, maybe it's been repaired? |
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Location: Brighton,MI | Dave,
I just checked and in fact do have one of those...6 string #515740
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Location: NJ | Judging by the moire pattern of the image, I'd say that it was scanned out of a book/brochure somewhere?? |
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Member serial number list |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Noah, don't you have a viper to add to the list? |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Is the bass a Viper or round-back? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Paul Wag:
Is the bass a Viper or round-back? Based on shape of horn, I'd say round back elite.
Where's the Book Ukulele? Don't laugh - it'll make it's debut one of these days / years. |
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Location: Germany | Mike,
I found the picture in a '97 German acoustic guitar magazine. One set (they say out of 10) came to Germany and they tried to sell it. In the end they sold them seperately. I only know the today's owners of the mandocello and bass. Click the thumbnail:
You're right, the bass epaulets are different, here are pictures of a Book Bass:
Book Bass
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Location: NJ | cwk2;
Is that bass you've got down in Flah a BookBass?? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Is that ALL the book elite owners we have around here? Dave
Serial Number List |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | Dave:
On the road... I will send a serial # when I get home. She's sleeping by my bed.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | When you are on the road, someone else is sleeping in your bed? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Hi to everybody,
this is my first post in this forum, because although I collect Ovations now for quite a long time I didn't know this page!
But it's good to know there are more Ovation-Weirdos out there. Makes it easier for me to apologize every time I want to buy a new one. I will show my wife this page and the collections some of you have (although she is quite generous with me buying guitars...).
So, please forgive me my mistakes (I didn't speak english for a long time) and that I refresh this old post.
But I have two of these "Book Editions", a Longneck and the Bass, Karl wrote of (it is now mine!)
And, to answer one of those old questions: The Epaullettes on the picture are not the original ones, they are the same than the ohter "Books" have. And the Body is a normal Deep Bowl (no Viper Body).
So again, hi to everybody, thank you all for this great Board!
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Location: south east Michigan | Welcome Kurt!!!
We can understand your posts just fine.
Don't let that keep you from posting! |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Thank you Brad!
I will keep posting...
...if I got something to say!
Thanks for your Welcome,
best regards,
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Location: Germany | Hi Kurt,
welcome on board! I know your collection from Jerome's web site. One year ago I followed Ralph's book bass auction you finally won. It was a bargain! I know of another book bass in Berlin and they want twice the prize you payed for it.
I live close to Nuremberg, great to know of another Ovation kook not too far away.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Welcome. There are one or 2 others of the 4500 members whose wives are understanding about buying guitars. That may make you more special than being the owner of a Book Elite. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | @ Karl:
Hi Karl, thanks for your welcome. I know your collection as well, but I didn't know that it was a neck-and-neck-race with you for Ralf's Bass! I think you got my email adress from Jerome. He said, you wanted to ask me something?
@Mark:
Thanks for your post. I showed it immediately to my sweetie, it put a big smile on her face, and I think, this year I will be allowed to buy two or maybe three new guitars! Thank you very much!
Best regards,
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I've got one guitar but it's on loan to a player, I'll get the number sometime.
Cliff, Not as book bass, just a SS superbear claw. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cwk2:
I've got one guitar but it's on loan to a player That obviously leave me out.
Hey Bill, we should have Marc build "book" ukuleles !!! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | tdeej needs to be on this list. |
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Location: SoCal | Hey Bill, we should have Marc build "book" ukuleles !!!
and Kim could select the color/finish. |
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Location: North Idaho | I have a 6 string #512169. How nice a complete set would be.
Spring breaks are great except we got rained out of the high country this morning. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Forgot the serial numbers...
Bass: # 516832
Longneck: #513887 |
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Location: North Idaho | Kurt,
You have very nice guitars. What is the 1768-EMSX? Do you have pictures? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Thank you very much!
The 1768-EMSX was the so called "German Special Edition Vol.1".
The german distributor told me, that it was an experiment with guitars with an Engelmann Spruce Top between 1995-98, that should be selled on the german market, but they stopped the project. Some of them stayed in the US, only a handful were sold in Germany. I don't know, how many exactly were made.
Specs: Deep Bowl, Spruce Headstock and the Longneck-Fretboard Inlays.
It's not possible to upload a picture (I tried), but you can see some of my guitars and the 1768-EMSX on Jerome's page, ovationtribute.com.
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Location: North Idaho | Is this the one, Kurt?
Very nice. Love the fretboard inlays.
I've admired that before and thought it was a special order.
EDIT: Here are the good pictures: 1768-EMSX |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Yes, this is the one.
There are some more pictures in the Elite Section on Jerome's Page.
A very nice guitar with a wonderful sound! |
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| That is a beautiful guitar.
Hey Kurt - are you any relation to Koenig Kong? |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Hi Schroeder,
not really a relative. But I'm hairy as well, sometimes I can make a lot of noise and my wife says, I stink when I am wet...
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| Heelo Dave!!
You want to start a list of the Book Elite owners, that is ok. Perhaps I will find the other three owners of a Book Elite in Germany. The german Ovation distributor, Musik-Meyer in Marburg, told me about 4 Book Elite guitars they have sold in Germany, my Elite has the number "512661" . I bought it at ebay in January 2006, from the second owner in absolutely mint condition for a very low price, 1110 Euros (= 1362 USD) including the signed book. It's very interesting to find such a lot of german Ovation fans on this site, I hope to meet them next year on the Frankfurt music fair. We should talk about it next year.
There was a question "..where did you get this picture from?" I found most of my pictures when Ovation guitars were sold at ebay. Just have a look, you find pretty pictures there !!
Does anyone know why some Book Elites have a trussrod cover and others don't?
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| ... I mean "hello" and not "heelo" - that happens when writing too fast !! helmut-pl |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Hello Helmut,
I will add your name to thr list of Book Elite owners on my website. That would be great if you could locate the other German owners. My Book Mandolin came from Germany and it has the German distributer sticker still on the back of the headstock. How many Book Elites have you seen with Truss Rod Covers ???
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| Hello Dave,
I have only seen my own Book Elite, but on the site "ovationgallery" where I registered my guitar you can see this trussrod cover. Or is it just a fake ??
I would like to know this. The ebay number of my Book Elite was 7379942838, look at it.
Like Koenig Kurt I am also a junior member and I live also in Germany. I hope you all understand what we have to say on this site, I am also lucky that I have found the OFC. My English is only that what I've learned in school in the sixties.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I supposedly learned German in the 60s and there's no way I could communicate on a German site. You're doing fine helmut. |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Hello Helmut,
Well, we are Junior members, and there is a lot we have to learn. One thing I already learned from reading here, is: Ovationgallery.com is Dave's (Standingovation) page, and he adjusted the trossrud cover because he likes the look of it. Right, Dave?
Beste Grüße nach Deutschland und die USA,
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| Thanks Mark,
it's good to read those words, it makes it easier for everybody who wants to tell something on the site but doesn't do because of only speaking and writing a little bit english.
In Germany is no site where you can communicate about Ovations or other acoustic guitars, someone (who has learned his english well !!) should make a german Ovation-site - there are enough Ovation players and fans in our country.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Sehr gut! Does that make sense? I was very impressed with the German people when I visited a few years ago. It was almost universal that when I asked if they spoke English in my very bad German, they would say, "a little." I always told them that their English was much better than my German. It is somewhat embarassing that we Americans are so poor at foreign languages. |
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