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Location: Flushing, MI | I was checking out a pawn shop today when I happened upon a very strange looking Ovation style guitar. The neck was aluminum, with the aluminum fretboard, and frets, like an earlier Matrix. The top was white, and didn't appear to be wood at all. Upon closer inspection, I'm convinced that the top was some weird kind of plastic, or something - not wood.
The name on the headstock said "Academy". The model # was KA14, and the serial # was 015512. It did say "Kaman", and "Made in CT. USA".
Does anyone have a clue? I'd never even heard of this one before. Anyone else?
BTW - it was a deep bowl and, although the strings were very rusty, it seemed to have the potential to sound pretty good. Plastic top (or whatever) and all!
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | CWK2's favorite O
Was made for institutional instruction...
(that's where Cliff and CWK met...the institution) |
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Location: closely held secret | Weren't those the original Applause? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The Academy was Kaman's attempt at an all synthetic guitar. Some members here have said that they sounded pretty darn good considering the raw materials involved. |
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Location: NJ | ". . (that's where Cliff and CWK met...the institution) . ."
Bill and I shared a BasketWeaving Class . . .
The Academy Guitar:
Played one at Master Keller's house . . .
I'd own one in a Heartbeat.
(For What it IS, it does the job very well) |
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Location: Midland, MI | When I was young I had a guitar that sounds close to that. Did the one you saw have a crank on the side that you turned to make noise? |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | Yeah......I think mine played "Purple Haze".....
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ....ever play "Pop goes the Weasel" at speed metal tempo?
All the pre-school head banger chics dug it |
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Location: Midland, MI | Mine didn't play anything resembling music. It just kept saying, 'Let me out...let me out...let me out...' Or, maybe that was the voices in my head.
All the pre-school head banger chics dug it Have you seen how some parents dress their pre-school daughters? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliffy, CWK & Crusty meeting for the first time....
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Location: Midland, MI | Who's the head bull-goose loony around here?
Or, my favorite line from that movie:
Well I don't wanna break up the meeting or nothin', but she's somethin' of a , ain't she Doc? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "This is my esteemed colleague from the Soviet Union..." |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Well, dummy that I am, I asked first then searched right after (duh). Turns out there's not mention about 'em on this board either. I've never heard of these at all! At first sight I thought it was some cheap copy until I looked into the soundhole and saw that it came from Kaman (which sounds like a GREAT movie title!). The neck was warped like a beeeeeeotch though - I thought that was the whole deal about the aluminum neck was that it was supposed to be warp free - WHAT?!? About 3/4 of the rosette was gone too, so it was quite a sad sight. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | And, umm... what exactly do you mean by "institutional instruction"? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Music classes, son. Music classes. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | there was a discussion of the academy on the board not all that long ago...
Did you search For Sale as well as General posting? Try the Vault too, but there was a discussion just a few months ago on it.
EDIT: Here\'s one there are plenty more. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Music classes, son. Music classes. Sure, yeah, that's what they ALL say... |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Thanks for the link, that was very interesting. So the top is made out of Lyrachord as well eh? Hmm... |
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What the heck is THIS???