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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
the historical tradition of using the founder's last name (e.g., Fender, Gibson, Taylor, Martin, Guild, etc.). Hamer, Steinbeger, PRS, Collings.......... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I also read somewhere that during early testing, it was suggested that the guitar was so good it deserved an ovation. Could it have been Josh White? Somebody who was there needs to chime in here with the rest of the story. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
the historical tradition of using the founder's last name (e.g., Fender, Gibson, Taylor, Martin, Guild, etc.). Hamer, Steinbeger, PRS, Collings.......... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | let's not forget the -Z configuration guitars. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I also read somewhere that during early testing, it was suggested that the guitar was so good it deserved an ovation. Could it have been Josh White? Somebody who was there needs to chime in here with the rest of the story. nice idea but not Josh
He's just the one who said the guitar had "the largest testicles of an Oedipal nature" he'd ever heard |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I also read somewhere that during early testing, it was suggested that the guitar was so good it deserved an ovation. Could it have been Josh White? Somebody who was there needs to chime in here with the rest of the story. We're talking about the 60s. That "Somebody" can't remember the 60s. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I also read somewhere that during early testing, it was suggested that the guitar was so good it deserved an ovation. Could it have been Josh White? Somebody who was there needs to chime in here with the rest of the story. Just found the cite. It was included in a manuscript written by Michael Wright entitled Ovation Solidbody Guitars. The quote is attributed to jazz guitar great Charlie Byrd who had been shown an early model by Charlie Kaman who went on the road to promote his new technology. The quote reads as follows: "Byrd was impressed and felt the guitar - which was quite loud - had considerable potential. He later remarked that the guitar 'deserved an ovation,' thus providing the guitars with a name."
The article was published in Vintage Guitar Magazine May 1, 2003 and can be seen here:
Ovation Solidbody Guitars by Michael Wright |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
In the beginning:
From page 36 of Walter Carter's "A History of the Ovation Guitar".
More names to add:
Bluebird
Panda
Nikki Sixx
DJ Ashba Demented
Heroin Diaries
Mick Thompson Seven
Craftsman
Excellent. This leads us to "what ever happened to the Balladeers?" questions, but it's certainly a start. |
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Location: Texas | Country Artist...............who was it?
Glen?.........Jerry Reed?.....?..............me?..... :)
Artist....?..........was it Glen?
Great questions Miles.........we need to know all the answers! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It was Steve Sutton, read the book. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Was going to mention that they named it the Balladeer after a folk group that were some of the first O players -- but the above post beat me to it... |
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What's in a name?
