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Sad news for guitarists: Ovation is closing down.
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:52 amby MikeTalbot
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 3-13-47-17
They're closing the only US maker of the venerable Ovation guitars. I'd always meant to pick up one of those. May have missed my chance.
Talbot
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:11 amby DainNobody
did they not make the Adamas model? the guitar that Larry Coryell make sing like a bird?.. the little holes in the soundboard?..to this day, I have never seen an Adamas model..never come across one at a music store, pawn shop, garage sale or auction
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:50 amby Jahva
I have an old Celebrity... I left it laying around the house in an open tuning for the kids to beat up... and they did.
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:28 pmby GuitarMikeB
Its also the location that built Guild guitars since Fender bought them out. Never met an Ovation I liked (recently), in the early-mid 80s, they were THE acoustic-electric.
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Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:12 amby MikeTalbot
Dane
I saw Larry Coryell live and I have to say, that cat could wail. Band too. Great gig, got to meet the band and just chat over beers. I didn't really know them as high enders - just assumed they were players in the grind, who happened to be really good!
IIRC that was not too long after his sort of breathtaking performance at Montreux.
It all rolls together in my mind sometimes.
Talbot
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Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:40 amby DainNobody
MikeTalbot wrote:Dane
I saw Larry Coryell live and I have to say, that cat could wail. Band too. Great gig, got to meet the band and just chat over beers. I didn't really know them as high enders - just assumed they were players in the grind, who happened to be really good!
IIRC that was not too long after his sort of breathtaking performance at Montreux.
It all rolls together in my mind sometimes.
"
Talbot
I am having a hard time finding Twin House" the album he did with Catherine..
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Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:14 pmby Planetguy
I was never a big fan ovation gtrs or mandos. still very sad to see them close up shop. wonder how long it will be til FENDER buys the rights to produce them.
Dayne Nobody IV wrote:
I am having a hard time finding Twin House" the album he did with Catherine..
Dane, I checked my vinyl as I have several of corryell's early albums. Sorry, no luck, though I do have the other one they did together "Splendid".
hmmm. gonna have to give it a spin.
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:25 pmby DainNobody
thanks Mark for looking, I have it on a cassette somewhere, made a copy off a friend's vinyl when I lived in Orlando, but I no longer have a cassette player even if I could find it.. did you see the price somebody on the River was asking for it? did not look further into it, whether it was vinyl or a CD but it was 237 dollars I think.. a used one was 20 something dollars..