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Location: Indiana | At the expense of over-posting... I'm at the stage of my career where I'm down to a handful of small house concerts and songwriter festivals a year. The festivals... we have scheduled/paid shows every night. Then we players get together for informal guitar "pulls" that go well into sunrise, just for ourselves... to get reacquainted and play new stuff for each other.
So many times through the years, I've handed my Adamas over to a wood-box player only to end up playing their Martin's and Taylor's for the rest of the night. They won't give mine back. Never played anything like it before. Sad. |
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| I had a funny feeling that when DW took over Ovation, it would spiral down the hill. I am glad I got my Glen Campbell from the winter Namm Show 2 years ago from Bill Xavier, he was really pushing Ovation products at the show, but unfortunately the dealers would stop for a moment and look at he guitars, than walk away. I was ecstatic when I saw that Glen Campbell guitar. I wish I would have gotten one of the Blue Birds, but DW put a hefty price tag on them and I just couldn't justify paying that kind of money for that guitar that wasn't exactly like Glen's original one. I am hoping DW will have Ovations at the winter 2019 Namm Show and show them off proudly! I really do love my Ovations and I have my original ones that I bought back in the 70's, due to seeing David Cassidy and Glen Campbell playing them on TV. |
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Location: New York, NY | OK, so I find the announcement both troubling and confusing.
Will the New Hartford, CT facility reopen?
Will there be a US facility elsewhere?
Will the current US models be discontinued?
The sad thing is that I checked the revised Ovation website and was somewhat encouraged.
Unfortunately, the Adamas line appears to be gone.
However, the good news is that they are now up to 13 American models: 6 LX Custom Elite, 6 LX Custom Legend, and 1 new American SX Main Street ($1700). So again, will these be discontinued?
http://www.ovationguitars.com/guitars-six-strings
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Location: New York, NY | More confusion: Sweetwater has two "American Limited" models, which aren't on the Ovation website.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/manufacturer/Ovation/high2low
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Location: Texas | I think everyone agreed that Ovation could have done a better job with their website. |
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Location: When?? | We all know about New Hartford, and the countless names and talent that have passed through the doors there.. and it makes me wonder about the place in Korea where they make some of the new Ovations today. I see some pretty nice MIK Ovations on Sweetwater-type sites.. and many are not cheap in price either. So who are the guys there today? Heck, maybe they have an old character brick building, too, and a crew of seasoned guys with decades of guitar crafting in there showing the new guys how it's done. Or not. Maybe it's a crappy tin building off some street in the industrial section of Seoul full of production workers who are just happy to have a fan blowing on them. I dunno. Does anyone here know the story and history on this?? |
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Location: NJ | well the last set of doublenecks did not impress me at all.....
there are issues with some other guitars also.
IMHO the tops on the exotic woods guitars are way too thick....I was shocked by how thick they were.
they are beautiful and sound great plugged in...but ultimately it is a ply top |
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Location: NJ | there is a difference between craftsmen and contractors.
craftsmen build as an artform
contractors build to the specification |
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Location: When?? | And, sadly enough, there are many craftsmen these days who end up getting stuck working for contractors. |
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Location: New York, NY | jay - 2018-09-03 4:13 PM
I think everyone agreed that Ovation could have done a better job with their website.
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