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Location: Phoenix AZ | Here's a nice looking one ... Birds eye top mando. I'm no fan of laminated tops, but if you're gonna have one, might as well make it a pretty one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/OVATION-MANDOLIN-MDL-MCS-148-BIRDS-EYE-TOP_W0QQ... |
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Location: big island | quite a handsome instrument.
how do ovation mandos sound, by the way? i play mandolin too but sold my custom one last year to pay for my then 16 y.o. daughter, who lives in NC, to spend the summer with us.
it was a worthy sacrifice. |
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Location: Ct./ USA | If you get a chance to hear the band Beatlegras, all Beatles done in Bluegrass(check out on the internet) they use an American made Ovation Mando. I own one and enjoy it's sound, sustain, crafts-man-ship and durability as it generally is always in tune, just have to tweek a string or 2. |
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Location: big island | mahalo for the O mando report adamas72. one of these days...
i will check out beatlegras too. thanks! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | I think I saw that movie... er no, that was something like beatle juice... |
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Location: big island | whatcha doin' jp? ur s'posed to be spendin' time with your babyback! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Lanaki:
how do ovation mandos sound, by the way? I'm no mando expert, but personally I think they sound damn nice. Some true bluegrassers have told me the Ovations don't sound like "real" mandos to them, ya know compared to gibson f-holes and all that. There certainly is a difference (Ovation mandos are not very loud, by comparison). Just like Ovation guitars, which almost always play second fiddle acoustically, when plugged in the Ovation mandos can't be beat.
One word of caution, you get what you pay for. There is a reason a celeb mando costs $400. I went through the entire product line. Started with an Applause mando. The neck seperated from the bowl. Upgraded to a celeb mando. The top collapsed about 1/2 inch. I had to remove frets to make it playable. Upgraded to a USA mando which was very nice indeed, but rather plain-jane. Finally stepped into a Book mando. That one's a keeper.
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Location: big island | mahalo tupp! now go to sleep! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | People are always goiing to say that Ovations don't sound real, but compared to what?? The comments I got in the beginning was that the mandos were between an A and F style and that was NOT nowhere's land but more the best of both worlds, and you can plug in!
I think I'd prefer a solid top. My Collings is spruce with birdseye B&S in natural finish. It's beautiful. |
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Location: NJ | I can vouch for Bill's Collings.
I don't think I've ever heard a prettier mando (loud, too).
"One of These Days", I'll get a mandO, and I'll hold out for a USA/solid top . . . Tupp's right, y'get what y'pay for . . . |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | A mando is on my list too, along with a uke and an Ovation 6 string whenever the funds get straightened out. as far as Mando's go, The USA model, i'll get one new or used doesn't to me!
but i've wanted on for a long time. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I do have a spruce top Ovation mando too, just so it doesn't feel left out. It's a book replica with a bearclaw top. A lovely instrument. It wintered with Cliff one year and had a good time there as well. |
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Location: NJ | ". . It's a book replica with a bearclaw top . ."
Don't forget the inlaid eppaulets
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Birds eye top mando
