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Location: East Tennessee | Boy. So many choices so liitle time.
I guess I'd say my Elite 1758 12 string.
OK, who's next? |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | Just to clarify the question. I mean to say if money were not involved and you could choose any ovation model in existence, which would it be. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ( Q ) " I guess I'd say my Elite 1758 12 string."
Would n`t that limit you to strumming,....what about intricate fingerpickin`..?.. :)
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | There is no problem finger picking a 12 string I do it all the time. (Leo Kottke) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Someone asked me this awhile ago and I couldn't decide. I have a variety that all have their virtues. It's kind of like asking which is your favorite kid. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Enfant Terrible aka V-Elite:
( Q ) " I guess I'd say my Elite 1758 12 string."
Would n`t that limit you to strumming,....what about intricate fingerpickin`..?.. :)
Vic No Problem. Not much harder than a 6 string. Although my intricate fingerpicking is probably rather elementary. |
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Location: Tennessee | I'm really hoping it's the OFC guitar, due to arrive within the next couple of months. :cool: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by saccaguea:
There is no problem finger picking a 12 string I do it all the time. (Leo Kottke) You're Leo Kottke!?!?!?
Cool.
Welcome.
My choice, my balladeer.
But it's like asking who I'd like to have as a wife. This is not a choice I get to make. That part of history is written. |
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Location: SoCal | I don't really think I could answer this question as there are so many new Ovations that I haven't played yet. And even of my guitars, I could be happy with any of them as just my sole guitar. I'm a very fortunate person... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | For most of us, its the next one, and the next one ...
The answer could be any one, cause they all scratch an itch. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ( Q ) " I'm a very fortunate person..."
Moody,are you the " Fortunate Son " that John Fogerty wrote a song about...?.. :)
..and Welcome to Leo Kottke..
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ( Q ) " No Problem. Not much harder than a 6 string. Although my intricate fingerpicking is probably rather elementary."
Ah,..I`m getting a little confused,does that mean that you will string it with six strings and play it through the AC 60 in Chorus mode...now that would be a Sound idea... :)
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Location: Phoenix AZ | U681-12 string. This guitar is the whole package. If you get tired of 12 strings, take half of them off and you've got a standard 6 string U681 with 1-7/8 neck.
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Started thinking about this question. Looked at my O's thinking "which one, which one?" Got all stressed out. Now I'm hiding in my fortress of 9158 cases and starting at sudden noises. What I wanna know is who's gonna pay for this thorazine, huh, HUH!?! |
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Location: PDX | First, i haven't played them all. I've coveted guitars only to find once i owned them they just didn't do it for me. My 1537, and 1581 come to mind.
Second, i'm really fickle it seems. I was really enamored with my 1547, but now, it's kind of, blah, take it or leave it.
Of the 15 guitars i own now, ten of which are Ovations, if i had to pick one -- it would be my Suhr Telecaster -- no question.
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Location: big island | jason,
we may be hijacking this thread. perhaps there should be another thread for the non-O question. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | I'm hoping the OFC Adamas in progress is THE one. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
jason,
we may be hijacking this thread. perhaps there should be another thread for the non-O question. I thought the folklore WAS an Ovation ?
For me, the choice would be between the 2005 collectors, or (and I've never played one) an Al Di Meolo in natural. (the black looks too 'bling')
I haven't played my 2005 enough to determine if the contour bowl is versatile enough. It sounds great, but if it didn't live up to expectation, I'd go for the ADM. |
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Location: SoCal | If I had to make a decision right now, today,based upon what I've got and the state of everything today, it would probably be the GC RI. Later this year, it might be the OFC guitar. But then, if I could scrape together the cash to send my 1537 back to the factory for an upgrade (install new 2 knobber electronics, new jumbo frets, clean the fretboard, minor cosmetic stuff, etc) then that might be "The One"..... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
it would probably be the GC RI. I almost said that same thing! But I didn't want to jinx myself because although I do currently own it, it's next owner is already identified. I actually had to put the guitar in the case and stash the case in the way back closet. I knew if I kept playing it I'd never want to sell it. What a nice, nice guitar. I've had 1537's and Custom Legends and all that kind of stuff. But nope, those are a lower notch on the pole than the 1627 RI. It's a shame that Ovation did such a terrible job to promote it. This guitar should have sold by the thousands.
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1. 2080D
2. 1984 C-Series
3. 1689 slothead
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Location: big island | Originally posted by muzza:
Originally posted by Lanaki:
jason,
we may be hijacking this thread. perhaps there should be another thread for the non-O question. I thought the folklore WAS an Ovation ?
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Location: France | Very difficult, but certainly my #47 or my 1537 |
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| you guys are crazy knowing all these model numbers and all. I really have to read up more on ovations and hear more of them. When you guys talk it just flies over my head |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i'd take any good-sounding deep-bowl ovation.
but my dream is to get Kevin Ryan's Cathedral - Signature series. |
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Location: Indiana | I guess I would say my "Book" Elite as far as Ovations. Only because if I ever get tired of playing , I could still marvel at the way it looks. To include everything else, I would have to keep my 62 Fender Jazz Bass.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | SACCAGUGEA.....U mentioned fingerpicking on a 12 stringer a la Leo Kottke..Does that mean that U are using Leo`s Tuning ...C# F# B E G# C#...on What Guitar ?...12 stringer Baritone...?..for surely on a 20 fretter the strings would " slap " like mad against each other..or am I missing somethin`.. :)
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heh heh heh
BTW, Your mailbox is full... |
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Location: SoCal | Tup, you'd really keep the 1627 RI over your Adamii? Or are you putting the two into different catagories with one being Ovation and the other being Admaii? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Tup, you'd really keep the 1627 RI over your Adamii? Or are you putting the two into different catagories with one being Ovation and the other being Admaii? Dear Paul, I realize you and I are from different planets, but when I go into a retaurant and the menu says "hamburger", to me that means "hamburger". Not chicken-burger, not veggie-burger. It's a hamburger. I vaguely recall that the question posed in this thread said "Ovation". It didn't say Celebrity or Adamas or Ocean Acoustics or Applause. It said O-V-A-T-I-O-N.
I stand by my choice. The 1627RI is one of the damn nicest Ovations to come along in a long, long time. To me it sounds better than any CL30, 1537, etc. I'd rate it above the FD14 because it's got better electronics and is more versatile. Soundwise the 1627RI is stunning. In recent days, maybe the Koala is nudging it's way onto the upper rung but still too early to say.
The people that responded to this thread and mentioned their Adamas guitars, well they are of course all wonderful guitars. But obviously they didn't read the question very well did they? Bill gets an exemption because his 2080D actually says "Ovation" on the headstock.
If you want to open this up to guitars that don't say "Ovation" on the headstock, then I'd ditch them all and say TAKAMINE EF-75.
Now Paul, go pour yourself another cup of coffee, give me 20 pushups and apologize for questioning my decisions. DO IT!
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Ok, I'm better now. Dave, bite me..... |
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Only they can turn a simple question into a cat fight. |
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Consider yourself lucky that you've never had to subject yourself to this while they're doing it at the breakfast table in your own home . . . |
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I'm successfully married.
I can turn my hearing on and off at will.
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Who's got the Book of Oxymorons? Another entry straight away! |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | Well actually when I posed the question about the favorite ovation, I did not mean to be so technical about adamas vs. ovation. I meant all of them together. An ovation may not be an Adamas but My Adamas does say it's an ovation. Just as all cats may not be lions, but all lions are cats.
As for the Leo Kottke, he was merely an example of a person who fingerpicks a 12 string. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | Please don't Hurt me for asking this Tup, but if you include the Adamas would your choice of guitars still be the same? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I can't answer these kinds of questions because I'm so spoiled, blessed, lucky, selfish, etc. that I don't really know what it's like to make choices. I'm the anti-Sophie.
Choice is sub-contiously influenced by how much a guitar cost me, and how rare or collectable it is. Hard to dis-associate from that.
OK, roll the dice. Comes up .... FD14. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | Hey, I'm new. I didn't realize it was going to be this tricky. I will have to be on my Toes more. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | We can spend 5 pages of posts and never discuss the original topic. There's nothing tricky about it. |
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Location: big island | if it HAS TO say "ovation" on the headstock, then my initial answer does not qualify. i've only owned one guitar that qualifies and it is en route to thailand via riverside. that was a 1537-4. if i could own only one ovation, i would choose croce's actual guitar.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HCyE1280A
read the comment posted by Criscroce towards the bottom of the youtube page. he mentions he traveled to visit maury's family in new jersey and got to play the only guitar of maury's that survived the plane crash, the same ovation maury plays in this video. i had heard that croce's ovation survived the crash too but had not heard about maury's before this. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Now THERE's a missed marketing opportunity!
"And look! It's still in tune. Ovation." |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | It Doesn't Have to say ovation! I GET TO SAY! BECAUSE I STARTED THIS THREAD ! (Boy, I hope I don't get Kicked out now) |
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If all Zips are Zoodles, and all Zoodles are Zonkers, then all Zips are definitely Zonkers.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My response is:
A) Ovation FD14 Folklore Deluxe
B) Ovation FD14 Folklore Deluxe
C) Ovation FD14 Folklore Deluxe
(for those who don't know, this was a limited edition of 50 instruments made in 2003....cedar top, deep bowl)
Wish it had had a nicer rosette and a gloss top....I might have been able to talk SWMBO into it when it was available!!!! It just didn't look "worth the money" when I played it for her at Elderly in 2003, despite how great it sounded.
So....I'll have to settle for:
D) 2002 Collectors
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I think, to get kicked out, you have to set up a sales booth in the FOR SALE forum. But you get 77 warnings first. I think.
I think?
I think I think.
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2. Ovation 1614
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | My SWAMBO dosen't like being called SWAMBO but does like the meaning of it. She wants to Know what name is used for the husbands. She is a good SWAMBO though. She let me buy 5 guitars since January with no complaint. Nice ones too. Hows that. |
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Location: Colorado Springs, CO | My SWMBO now likes Jewel's Mom better than you cwk2. She is also Jewel's mom since our 5 year old daughter's name is Juila.(I still like you since you signed the guitar which I have played for so many hours and days over the last 20+ years.) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | The Last one I purchased?!
Or is it the next one to be purchased?
Or does that count?
I really don't feel that this is a fair question! :mad:
OK OK, of the two that are currently at my house it's no contest, the 1778LX. The 1867 however is a great guitar plugged in! Fast neck, great action, love the OP24, but since I play accoustically most of the time it's SSB can not compare to the LX.
A Custom Legend 12 is due to arrive on Friday, so I reserve the right to change my mind yet again and again and again and again and again.. Ya'll get the picture! (after all, it's all ya'll's fault for my GAS). |
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If you could own only 1 ovation which one would you choose?