Good idea....

Hopefully then I do not struggle again to post them.

When I wrote the post, the photo first was shown, later gone.

Anyway, I remember you did a post with how to do it, Nancy....   

But I know that I am not the only one who has/had difficulties, so there is good company.

This is one of the things I suggested to Bill Xavier in our phone conversation. Here's hoping....

arthurseery - 2015-04-15 1:51 AM Okay... If anyone from DW is reading this... PLEASE don't use that crappy FendrOvation logo. Go with the tried-n-true Ovation logo... The one that lasted since the 1960's...

I love the original too, but, this logo works, in person. Plays and sounds pretty good, too:

One of the last... I think

Yeah, I actually almost bid on one of these fugly "protovations"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-Ovation-Proto-Series-Acoustic-Electric...

And there are still a few on Ebay, but I came to my sense and got a Guild Orpheum instead which I think represents the best of what they were doing in New Hartford toward the end.

Nancy, got pics included to my very first posts, it was easy then. We will see. Thanks for the offer!

Georg

I dunno... The new headstock is growing on me. No 'ears' to break off. 

Meh, careless players will end up busting the tip off that one too.

IMHO, the original headstocks are just as iconic to the brand as the lyrachord bowls, the oak leaf eppies and roesettes, and the pin-less bridges.

The headstock shape, logo design, etc. aren't what need revision ...effective promotion, product accessibility, and brand building management are.  2¢ 

Nice to see the patient is still breathing. I think there's a place for Ovation guitars in the market.

i'm not sure the market for guitars will ever be as big as it was in the 60s-80s.....it's just not that big a piece of the culture any more. Ukulele players have as much credibility as a good guitar player now.

Took my Legend into a guitar shop to play it through a Fishman recently. Will be buying one soon. The tech/salesman was a buddy from 'way back, asked to play my Ovation as he hadn't seen it since I brought it to gigs in an old band 30 years ago. He took a long time giving it back, after I was done twiddling knobs on the Fishman while he played.

Hi everybody,

been there today, at Frankfurt Music Fair.

Eight Ovation guitars (well, six, plus an Adamas and a Celebrity) were shown. There was one guy working on the stand, where they showed another brand as well.

He told me that the German company named GEWA is not only Ovation's new distributor for Germany, but for all Europe.

Also he said, they are still sorting things out which they took over from Fender. As for example very few Adamas guitars, which they actually do not sell!

He was confident that it should soon be able to get spare parts ( I bought two pickups last year, then tried to get another two, just to be safe, but that was when the deal was already going and Fender refused to sell them...).

They had no catalogues, leaflets etc. on the place, and he said it was decided only at short hand to show Ovations on the fair.

What GEWA did, they reserved space on the "Acoustic stage" in Hall 3, where a guy called Oliver Hartmann performed on two AX-Ovations (6string Legend and 12string Elite). He and/or a guy named Giovanni Hidalgo (percussion) will perform on Friday, 4.30 p.m. and Saturday, 11.00 a.m. as well for them.

Well, that's it, I guess.

By the way, it seems as if Gibson owns a lot of firms.... they showed not only Epiphone, but e.g. Tascam, Steinberger and.... Kramer.

See the pictures in the album here:

http://www.ovationfanclub.com/megabbs/photos/photo-thumbnails.asp?albumid=1218

I am sorry they are not good, just made with my mobile phone, but they give an idea at least...

Georg

red-twins

Fillhixx, which Amp did you decide to buy? Just asking 'cause I am interested in them for quite some time... Saw all of them on the Music fair at Frankfurt today again.  Unfortunately, prices went up on them here recently +30%....

Georg,

red-twins