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Location: Montreal Canada | Well I have been playing my ovation 6756LX and just love it. What a beautiful 12 string guitar especially when you plug it in.
I was always skeptical about the plastic bowl couple of years ago and would choose wood any time. But now everything changed after I noticed that my favorite musician (Russian fellow by the name of Rozenbaum) is playing a 12 string ovation legend. At that point I decided to get myself the same guitar and two years later I got it.
What an amazing instrument! I just finished playing and I cant believe how amazing it is.
If anybody is enterested in the Russian musician I was talking about, I can post some of his mp3 if admins allow it. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | The ovation 6756LX plays like a dream. You don't have to convince me. You ca send me an MP-3, and I can return the same from my ovation 6756LX. |
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Location: Montreal Canada | I ment to send the MP3s of the Russian musician, not mine.
I hope everybody understood it right. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Do it. Waiting.............. |
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Location: Montreal Canada | Ok Tommy you got an email |
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| How I found out about Ovation -
it was subliminal. I started playing at 12 or 13 in 1969 or 70. Went electric after a few years and had cheapo's for acoustics for most of that time, till, as an adult, I decided to trade in my electric on a nice acoustic. It had to be an Ovation, and I didn't really know why.
Thought it might have been because of being present in a small music store when an Ovation rep visited and demonstrated all the parts of an Ovation, and he was slick, and I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
But I learned there was a deeper reason, it was deeper...
When my Mom packed up to sell the family home about 8 years ago, she gave me a bundle of guitar chord books I had bought while in high school - and a couple were of songs from my first guitar hero - Glen Campbell....
...and he was pictured holding an Ovation...
then it all made sense.
I kept my first Ovation a number of years (1862 shallow Balladeer) but the internet casued me to buy into the wood purist thing - and I let the 1862 go.
The all-wood guitars have been great, but I recently realized how much I really liked that 1862. Now I have a beat up 1861 on the way to my house!
But it was subliminal... |
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | my college roomate had a nice legend deep bowl cutaway (about 20 years ago)....i just loved the rich mellow sound, purchased a used 1980 1117-4 shortly there after, (which is currently at the mother ship being refretted)...it was my 1st usa ovation, and still one of my favorites....i can't wait to get it back...
i just can't get my arms around a dreadnought body, the roundback is all i know. |
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| Cliff helped me... |
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Location: NJ | :rolleyes: |
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Location: south east Michigan | Cliff helped me... That made me laugh! |
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Location: SoCal | Hey, Cliff was just administering tough love to Nick....
Well, actually, he was kicking the snot out of him, but the tough love thing sounded better.... |
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Location: NJ | I've never been known t'be one to mince words . . . |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...then quit using apostrophes |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
...then quit using apostrophes Hee hee, you guys are a-killin' me!
Actually, I was trying to recall that special term of endearment that Cliff had for Nick at the start of this whole thing. What was it now? |
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Location: NJ | It was a "fucking idiot" . . .
. . . and based on the document in question that I was reacting to AT THE TIME (I certainly don't feel that way about Nick now), I fully stand behind my comment.
problemos? |
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| No Sir. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by cliff:
It was a "fucking idiot" . . .
. . . and based on the document in question that I was reacting to AT THE TIME (I certainly don't feel that way about Nick now), I fully stand behind my comment.
problemos? No apostrophes in there. |
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Location: Hernando Beach (Tampa area) | Just one big happppy family . . .
Can anyone comment on how the 6751 12-string Balladeer matches up to the 6756LX? Unplugged tone the same? Brighter, darker? I don't see what pu the 6756 has, but of course its pre-amp would give more control. I've been doing 12-string jingles on a cheapie, probably time to upgrade, but unfortunately I broke the bank and car priveledges with the Hamer so . . . |
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Location: Massachusetts | I am a huge Kinks fan. The live version of Lola from 1980 was my first conscious introduction to the band and that C-C-CCC-DD-E was my first introduction to Ovation.
Ray has some sort of blueburst Legend circa 1993-1995 that is his main O. Always wanted a blueburst.
So in 2001, not enough money for a CL, I bought an S771.
Ray is seen lately with an all wood guitar for some stuff and O's for others. Tough call whether he will keep touring with O's..it's the first time I've ever seen him with an all wood guitar. |
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Location: Flushing, MI | I've always loved the Kinks, and especially Ray's acoustic doodlings. I never really paid any attention to the fact that he was using an Ovation. I always knew that it sounded good.
I've always been more of an electric (Telecaster) player, and my fingerpicking on an acoustic was always kinda just a hobby I reckon. I never had a real good acoustic. Always cheap junk stuff, such as lower budget Yamaha's, or an Applause years ago. In the last few years my acoustic gigs have increased to where I had to find a quick and easy, plug and play acoustic (my Celebrity), but I also needed something with a great acoustic tone, un-amplified. I just recently got my answer. My 81 Legend. |
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How did I find out about ovation
