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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I've been looking for my first Ovation for several weeks now and have noticed that there seems to be a lot of Balladeer 1861's for sale. Is there a problem with that model? Also seems like ebay has lots of black guitars in all of the models. I have owned a Martin D12-20 for 30 years so I'm not sure what it would be like with something other than a natural finish.
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Location: SoCal | There are a lot of Baladeer 1861's made. I suspect that the reason people are selling the blac, one (and this is just a WAG) is that they show every smudge ever put on them.
If I was looking these days for an inexpensive Ovation, I'd look on ebay for either a S771 Baladeer, or a S778 Elite. Great guitars for the money. Both are mid depth bowls and both sound good acoustically or plugged in.
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I've kinda' got my eye on a Custom Legend 1769 that seems priced right and looks really nice. I havent't seen any Balladeer S771 on Ebay or in our local stores. It seems most stores are stocking the shallow bowls. |
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Location: SoCal | The custom legend, if you can swing the price, is the way to go.
I go into music stores and most of what they have on stock are the Ovation Celebritys. Very very few good Ovations are found anywhere. The Celebs are the face of Ovation. Damn. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | for a while in the mid 90's it was about split in thirds on colors, 35%-4, 30%-5 and 35%-1 or something else. There was some back patting that "our standards are very high so only the best tops get to be naturals" hence the high number of down-grades to -5. In hind sight maybe it was being too picky and more -4s should have been made. |
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Location: WPB, FL | I have a 93 model 1711 that I bought from someone on this sight several months back and I love it. While I am a novice player, anyone who has played it is really impressed with it as an acoustic guitar, and when it is plugged in it is great.
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