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Location: Denmark | Pretty much like the taste of bike decision: Looks, sounds and feels just right. Many guitars do that but only a few with a concept identity comparable with O's and A's. This concept identity is as strong as Harley's concept. Even V-rods follow that basic concept. |
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Location: Texas | A year later I come back to the same question and my answer is still the same:
I love Ovation guitars.............................I just recently got a vintage Ovation Legend 1617-1 Sunburst........................................man, what a great guitar!
Brings back so many great memories of the past and it is still a wonderful guitar. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Eyes can be deceived. Ears not so much. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Yeah Serge, but that L-5 ain't half bad either.... |
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Location: Suisun City, Ca | The multi-sound holes brought me, the neck/feel holds me...
They hate the round back/plastic. |
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Location: Seacoast NH | Most of the comments from friends playing my Os is that they are hard to hold. That and the unfair reputation for sounding "tinny" that has been propogated by some shallow body models.
I bought my first O (E6768) back in 1994. I went into a guitar store that was closing and liquidating everything seeing if I could score a decent wood box cheap. Never was interested in Os. The owner talked me into playing the 6768, and an hour later I walked out the door with it. Love at first sight I suppose. Brought it home and my friends (who were playing Washburns, Takemines, etc.) made fun of it til they played it...just so fluid, simple, and responsive once you figure out to hold it.
And 17 years later, not one of those Washburns or Takemines from back then is still around (something about wood being difficult to maintain? :) ). But my deep bowl Elite still sounds and plays as nice today as it did in that store so long ago...what a great purchase it has turned out to be. |
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Location: Michigan | i walked into the local guitar store with a buddy who wanted to get some strings for his electric. at the time that is all i played was electric. we walked into the acoustic room just to waste some time and look around . this was in 2000 and the last thing that i would of owned would of been an acoustic guitar,those were for sissy's not me. than out of the corner of my eye i saw an adamas mill cb with that :cool: coooool :cool: neck . when no one was looking i picked it up and played a few chords on it . wow i was blown away by the sound and the neck set up . i slowly looked at the price tag and crapped my pants $1999.00. i put it down and the owner came in and proceeded to give me an education on adamas/ovation guitars . i told him i couldn't afford something that expensive so i guess i won't be taking anything home today. then i saw a celebrity deluxe cs 257 that was almost the same color and played on that for a while , i was impressed by the thin neck and the action on them so i walked out with a cs 257 and that is how the o collection started . now i am one of those sissy's who hardly ever plays an electric anymore. :eek: GWB |
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Location: Louisville, OH 44641 | Fo me, I love the tone and looks (but I have to say I prefer the Adamas guitars). When I think about the molded Body, I think, wow, what a smart way to go. That's so much less expensive and far less time intensive to assemble than a wooden box. To me, it makes sense to invest time, money and effort on the sound board. Also, to me, the molded body is far more comfortable to play. I don't miss the hard wooden corners at all.
Finally, I totally enjoy all the people that tell me I play the coolest guitar they've ever seen. Is it odd?...maybe. Cool?...definitely.
So why do so many others hate Ovations? I think they look at the molded Body as a "cheap" way out. One local guitar dealer told me the cheap plastic and wooden sound board shrink and expand at different rates causing the glue joint between them to break. He claimed the sound board cane even come completely off.
Personally, I prefer playing an "Elite" guitar. So while I want Ovation to be successful, I don't want them to be too successful. |
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Location: Jet City | I bought a UKII (in 1983). It just felt right and I thought it looked cool. |
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| I'm not a fanboy and I don't give a damn about the past or the future but my 1975 1621-4 keeps coming back as my main guitar and I know it really well so I'd probably buy another one of these just as a spare. OMA had a nice one for sale awhile back and I should have grabbed it.
The Ovation looks good, built ford tough, has good tone and a good fast neck but if I found another guitar that worked better for me then that's what I'd use.
I'd like to try a K-1111 reissue (did I get that right) or maybe an original some day but that'd be about it. |
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