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Location: New York State | I love good guitars that have beautiful voices and beautiful looks. That includes Ovations as well as a bunch of other production guitars and handmades. I wish i could own one of each. That scares my husband ;)
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Location: vienna, west virginia | my first ovation was this breadwinner i bought in 1975... i was a junior in high school playing guitar in the jazz ensemble...  |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Susan, I'm glad to see that GAS is not gender based. Most of us old guys bitch about our wives not giving in to our GAS pains. Are there any couples out there were both are Ovation fanatics? |
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Location: New York State | In my case, my husband is a musician (cellist), who is very appreciative of my little gaggle of guitars. To him of course, guitars are ridiculously cheap.... a decent cello is worth many times more than all my guitars put together! In fact, a decent bow runs into the thousands $$$. ACK :eek:
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Location: Braman, OK | Originally posted by Omaha:
My Matrix. Purchased in 1977 (more or less...I really don't remember when exactly).
I still have it. It still plays reasonably well. My kids beat the crap out of it, and it just keeps coming back for more. I traded a Fender Jaguar for a Matrix about that same time. I was on the road a lot and didn't want to drag an amp around. In the late 80s I even got it autographed by Nuno Bettencourt (lead guitarist for Extreme). Unfortunately, it was stolen about two years ago :mad: |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Susan, your husband's cello is my wife's flute. Decent professional models start at something like $10k and you have to wait quite a while to get one made.
By those standards, guitars are cheap.
Wanna talk about GAS? We went to see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers a year ago. I think Petty and Mike Campbell changed guitars at least every other song. They had racks and racks of them back stage, and there were roadies constantly swapping them out. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. And who am I to offer guitar playing advice to either of them, but I would think that would get distracting.
Cheers!
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Location: Omaha, NE | Originally posted by pipemaker:
my first ovation was this breadwinner i bought in 1975... i was a junior in high school playing guitar in the jazz ensemble... Love the shirts. :D
Cheers!
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | My 1st was a (Made in USA) Celebrity CC11. Still have it. Good tone and great volume for an acoustic. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | My 1537 which I purchased at a pawn shop in Savanna GA in 1987 for $500. I still have it and will keep it until they pry it from my cold dead fingers and give it to my daughter. |
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Location: NJ | 1976 CustomBalladeer. Bought new.
Still gig with it every weekend. |
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Location: Texas | 1977 Legend 1117, bought new, sold years ago to a friend that still has it.
It was the only Ovation in the store with the Legend "look" that I was after.
So many memories with that guitar that now I have a 1977 Glen Campbell 1627 acoustic/electric, which is what I wanted in the first place.
It is still my favorite steel string Ovation. ;) |
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Location: closely held secret | 1994 black Ultra Deluxe 1517D. Found it in Apple music in Portland, and fell in love with the sound. I'd never sat and played a guitar that sounded so dark and lovely. Wound up giving it to a guy who lost his Martin while in prison and I have been accumulating O's ever since. Acoustically, all I really still want is a 1581. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Glen Cambell 12 String that my Dad helped me buy in 1978. Wish I still had it or one like it..Sure do miss it.I had always planned to get a glen Campbell 6 String but never got one...Maybe someday. |
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Location: North Texas | Balladeer Special. $200. with case. I've worn down the frets so much it needs a makeover. My Matrix is similar in tone and is getting played a lot lately. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | With the help of a High School friend who was a complete Ovation Nut I found my Custom Balladeer 1112-1. It was bought for a Son that went into the military and didn't have an interest in playing any more, so it had sat in a closet for 3 years. Since it was made in 1974 and I got it in 1980 it was in primo condition. I think I paid $300.
I took that guitar everywhere including on a weekend canoe trip once, in the case of course.
Didaling-ding-ding-ding ding-ding-ding.
Still have it! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MWoody:
I took that guitar everywhere including on a weekend canoe trip once, in the case of course.
In the case, of course?
Or in case, of course?
...like, in case you lost a paddle... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Are you up to semantics again? |
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Location: closely held secret | No, just trying to determine if you were protecting it or bringing it along as a backup paddle... |
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Location: Poplar Bluff Mo | My Elite 1778 LX BCB. But I've wanted an Ovation for about 30 years!
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | I had always had pretty cheezy cheap acoustics until 1994 when with a new job and new income burning a hole in my pocket I answered a nickel saver ad for a Ovation. The ad started at $600, but over four or five weeks went to $400.
I needed an acoustic electric as I was starting to play in a worship band (always used my cheezy cheap electrics for that up to this point).
I went and talked to the Hispanic pastor that owned the guitar, played it and bought the 1537 on the spot for $400.
Took it home and was crushed when my wife said "YOU PAID HOW MUCH for a DEFECTIVE guitar". Defective in that it didn't have one hole in the middle. As I looked at a backup on ebay and other locations, my wife now says, "Whatever you buy, it better not have just one hole in the middle". I think she has been won over. It has been my only Ovation and other than a couple of finish cracks and one pin head dent, she is still like new, and sings like an angel. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | That's just wrong, Jeff. Having a 1537 as your first Ovation, for $400, would spoil you.
A friend came over last night and "jammed". Mostly I watched him play because he was so much better than me. He played my whole collection before he got to the 1537 and then didn't want to put it down. |
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| 1971 Balladeer with case, from dad on my birthday. Receipt said $265... |
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Location: Toronto | Sunburst Elite 1768 bought new in 1997. Recently lent it to my mom - who decided to learn how to play at the age 68, started gigging at 71 and is now 'in demand' on the Legion/Retirement home circuit (she is an amazing yodeller).
I took my 2005 home a while ago to see if she would let me have my elite back but she wouldn't even consider it! |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | Elite 1718-1 1989 model, loved it...sold it, wish I still had that one.. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | So long ago, I can't remember clearly.
Played a friends Balladeer about '70-'71 (he still has it) and fell in love with....the volume! Loudest acoustic I'd ever heard. :eek:
First Ovation I found in a shop, I bought. Can't remember the model. It was a deep bowl, and had a thicker neck than the Balladeer, but it was loud. I was the loudest acoustic at any guitar-pull I showed up to....very important for a leadplayer wanna-be. ;)
Took it to Europe when I did the long haired hippie going to find himself thing. 40lb. pack and a 30lb guitar/case. Played with gypsies on the beach in Southern France and A Pink Floyd cover band in Dunkerque. Busked in the streets all over England & France.
I've collected a few different Os since then, but I actually miss my hair more than the guitars. Still have the case though!
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What was your first Ovation?
