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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA | Hello, Everyone,
Hey, Smokestack52, the YT video with the OVATION cab sounded great, BTW! OOPS! Yours truly was mistakenly reading the label inside the guitar in my songbook. There is only "Deluxe" written on the headstock of the guitar GC is pictured with, so I had to double-check THE OVATION GALLERY, and OVATION TRIBUTE sites to figure out the dates and times of the guitars in my songbook. Hey, LOF, I finally played my Ovation for a short time yesterday, after almost 2 months, and I played it unplugged also. It was not pretty, but it's start. Just continue to enjoy playing your OVATION. My first guitar teacher told me something when started I started taking lessons as a wee lad. "If playing your guitar isn't fun anymore, go do something else." You can always pick it up again later. When I myself became a guitar teacher, one of my guitar students was a lady being 72 years young!!
Mike S.
Ottawa, ON.,
CANADA
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Location: Lee, MA | Just wanted to show that these speakers are actually really decent sounding — whether they were intended as guitar amp speakers or PA speakers… I’m glad I picked them up! And they’re a cool — and odd — little bit of Ovation history…
On the same day I got the speakers, I also stopped by the original Ovation factory in New Hartford. Sad — not a trace remains of Ovation Instruments… it’s been subdivided into many spaces — which are occupied by artist studios, yoga spaces, craft supplies stores, a pub, etc.
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Location: Lee, MA | Original Ovation Instruments factory in New Hartford, CT.
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Location: When?? | Is that photo one that you took when you went there recently? I've seen a few others from a couple years ago when it was first being redone, but they weren't very complete, and would be interesting to see what they did with the place as of today. At least it isn't sitting abandoned and falling apart, and has kind of taken the same path of like what we were talking about earlier with the old mills in North Adams.
Edited by Love O Fair 2023-09-26 1:52 AM
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Location: Lee, MA | Yes, that photo was taken about a month ago. Lots of activity at the factory — just none of it guitar related. Supposedly the pub there has an ‘Ovation Room’ where they have some memorabilia associated with the former factory, but they were closed the day I came by… |
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Early Ovation PA/Guitar speaker enclosures
