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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Forgive me for re-visiting this subject yet again, but I needed to vent a little. I am trying to get my hands on an LX to try out so I foolishly drove over to my local Guitar Center during my lunch hour. Of course, the store had the usual handfull of celebrities and one 12 string legend hanging on the wall. When I asked the salesman about the "LX', he looked at me like I owed him money. He had no freakin' idea what I was talking about! Like I said, I should have known better. I'll try some other stores this week in search of an LX! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | John,
try the Ovation website for dealers near you. That may help. My suggestion is to check with Al. If you're close enough, he may have one you can try out. Hope this helps. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Thanks. I'm going to try aother local Ovation dealer in my area. Al is at least 50 miles from me but it and when the time comes to pull the trigger, Al will get my business. |
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Location: Scotland | OK, for once here's something positive about a big store. We went into Sam Ash on 48th st while we were in Manhattan last week. They had a bunch of Ovations including a 30th CL & a few LX's. A salesman came over & instead of trying to sell me a Taylor as they usually do, he actually started giving it the hard-sell on the LX, had all the facts right & actually sounded like he meant it. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | That's Great! Miracles have been known to happen once in a while. Nice to see a dealer pushing the quality of Ovation Guitars and knowing his stuff! |
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Location: NJ | John;
Richie's Music in Rockaway was SUPPOSED to be getting an Elite LX in. I stopped in a couple weeks ago (to follow up on a vist two weeks PRIOR to that one) but it still hadn't come in yet. He took my card and was supposed to call me, but as of yet, hadn't heard anything (albeit, a guitar pick-shaped business card is easily lost). Anyway, they MIGHT have (or had) one. Give 'em a call.
The question of LX availabilty was a hot topic of conversation on the Q&A. The simple truth: Supply & Demand. The majority (if not ALL) of Ovation's production is (and has been) the LX. They can't make them fast enough and have reached backorder situations in some cases. Frank revealed that they are in the process of augmenting their production staff with a goal of increasing production by 30%. That's a SIGNIFICANT increase in production!! The term "Factory" is pretty much a mis-nomer. There is a physical "factory", but by NO means is it a conveyor belt, assembly line situation. There is a TREMENDOUS amount of hands-on detailed work involved . . . it's efficient as HELL . . but by no means are there thousands (or even hundreds) of units flying out of the door every day. If there were, you wouldn't want the resultant instrument.
Ovation USA's in a good position right now. They've developed an instrument that people seem to want . . . and (for right now) can't fill the orders fast enough. Not a bad position to be in (nowadays) AT ALL!!
Be patient, . . . they're a-comin' !! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | It's good to hear that the LX models are doing so well! Not having played one, it's hard to judge, but the features that these guitars have may go a long way in selling Ovations to the more "traditional" brands' customers. I'm curious to see how much of a difference the new bracing makes.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm in no big rush to do anything. I'm just weighing some options at this point.
BTW. Cliff: You know that I'm going to HAVE to hear the llama story :D |
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Location: NJ | Sorry John, but I too, have been sworn to secrecy . . .
. . . at least until we've had a chance to review the animal laws for the state of CT. . . |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | John-
Have you played the TOP NOTCH yet? I heard they had their grand opening already.
I was in there a couple weeks ago for dinner, but they didn't have a liquor license yet, and they didn't quite have their service together either. But it looks like it would be a great place to play.
That place was awesome years ago when it was the side street pub. Lots of bands playin.
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Johnny:
I haven't played there yet because they want to wait until the liquor license comes through. The previous owner owed money for taxes, so they are holding up the license until it's paid. Fortunatelly, my friends leased the place with a liquor license, so for now they are not paying the rent.
As for the service issue, they are getting it together now but I agree, they were all screwed up there at first. They have two other very sucessful places, so I'm sure that they will be fine.
John |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Cliff:
Never mind! Maybe I don't want to hear the llama story after all. :eek: |
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Location: NJ | a wise choice. |
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