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Location: Valparaiso, FL | Went over to Guitar center in Mobile today with my son (who bought a PRS) and looked at the Ovations. Played a Glen Campbell, Elite, but a cedar topped Balladeer really was sweet. Any comments or caveats about that model? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's a nice guitar, the cedar.
Hamer is better than PRS but I do realize that it is next to impossible to tell your kids things, they gots to find out for themselves. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I have one of the cedar-topped Balladeers. Nice sound, am very happy with it. It really sounds good on country/folk/trad songs, I use it in preference to my more expensive Os for those.
The GCS771-C I have is the older type(bought in June 2004); the newer ones have a truss-rod cover, which is probably the LX neck.
The cedars have a very, very nice abalone rosette that the regular S771s don't have.
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by cwk2:
It's a nice guitar, the cedar.
Hamer is better than PRS but I do realize that it is next to impossible to tell your kids things, they gots to find out for themselves.
And according to the venerable Ed Roman, Jaros is better than Hamer.
:rolleyes:
Well, they're more expensive anyway. Doesn't that make them better?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | And let me take a wild guess, Ed Roman had a ton of those in stock. Oh, don't it make you wonder? |
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Location: Midland, MI | Nah, I don't wonder 'bout much when it comes to Big Ed. For grins one time, I read through every page he had on his site regarding Hamer. It started out all rosy, 'They're the best, beats the hell out of Gipson, blah blah blah.' Then as he added more and more it started to become, 'Well, yeah, they're nice, but *my* custom made guitars are just nicer.' Now it's all, 'Hamer is ok and they do some innovative stuff, but it's the same stuff Jaros is doing and I have Jaros and they cost much more...'
His motivations are rather transparent. At least in my opinion. But, you have to admit, he is entertaining. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Business and Art seldom coincide in the commercial brain. |
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Ovation Balladeer Cedar
