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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I don't give a phlying ph@#k what others think about Ovations and I have never been one to be influenced by 'trends'. (If you saw how I dressed you'd agree)
I love the sound of Ovations. I play almost exclusively acoustically, and look forward to the rare occasions that I get to plug it in.
I have no desire to buy another wooden box guitar - my Hondo will do me fine. |
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Location: Illinois | I think, what it is is, the emerging market for guit tars are the 40 - 50 something emptynesters who are now picking up the old axe again. Dusting off the old Silvertone they find it is nolonger useful. Now that they have the spare change to spend, they're going to buy the guitar of their dreams. If it is an acoustic, it's probably a Martin, Gibby, Gretsch or other 'Old Reliable' aka what was 'THE' guitar to have when they were young.
Maybe O should look at bowls of a different color to generate interest? Something with pizzazz. Something with sparkle. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Andrew,
While the others choose to ignore you I have to acknowledge your efforts with at least a groan.
They do kind of grow on you, don't they? |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Thanks Mike...I knew someone would groan at me.
At this point, I'm used to it... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You just ignore the groans Andrew. Those are darned fine puns apreciated, I'm sure, by all Candadians and Cousins across the pond.
America,land of the fart joke and Jerry Seinfeld...
(what do people see in that neurotic dweeb?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Not that there's any thing wrong with that... |
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| Id be honored to build another wooden roundback LUTE style.. All Ovation parts except the bowl.. Just to see the difference.. Someone has to ask Kaman not to fire me though??? :confused:
Wish I still had the other :( one. |
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Location: ranson,wva | staved wood bowl,12 fret wideneck,cedear top....sound beautiful to me....something id pay for...something like the old yairi dy92...jason |
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Location: Waterloo, IL | First time I heard an Ovation acoustic I decided that was the sound for me. I have never regretted my decision. I may be out of fashion to many, but the sound matters the most, even if it is filtered through a pair of hearing aids. But then, I have always been out of step with most of society.
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Location: ranson,wva | i love the look,the sound and the fact that they are unique...plus they are comfortable...jason |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | 'Old Reliable' aka what was 'THE' guitar to have when they were young. --TommyK
Okay... Sitting on the Library lawn, passing around hand-rolled smoke-ables, some itinerant hitch-hiking minstrel appeared with an Ovation. Brown-back. I liked the sound, and the design. He let me strum a few chords...
So, thirty-five years later, in the midst of my mid-life crisis, I got one. Then another. And when I find the right USO, I will get another.
So I think you got that right Tommy. But I like Old Choppers, Triumphs, 350 Chevy's. I got the O cuz I like a proven design. |
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All solid wood fashion
