My collection of Adamas and woodtop Ovation guitars made in New Hartford, CT used to be a static page, but early in 2019 I moved it in my WordPress blog engine.
In occasione dell’aggiornamento del tema di OneMoreBlog ho pensato di portare nel blog la vecchia pagina statica sulle mie chitarre Ovation, divenuta un po’ arcaica.
A series of tables and lists that summarise serial numbers, model codes and colors of the Ovation guitars from the beginning to the end of the 20th Century. Years and models Original series from 1966 Range Date Comment 006-319 1966 […]
Produced each year from 1982 in limited numbers, the Collectors Series gave Ovation the opportunity to launch new technologies and new designs, giving birth to stunning guitars, featuring gorgeous appointments and finishes. New necks, preamps, body sizes, shapes could be […]
I found traces of this article that once appeared on the official Kaman Ovation website, in “our story” section in the first decade of 2000. Apparently the author was Brian Hoover (if anybody can confirm it I’d be glad to give […]
I found this March 2002 post by Bill Kaman on the Ovation Fan Club forum. I save it here, just in case, because it’s precious.
There’s a lot of interesting information about the roundbak guitars on the Internet. I try to collect the best links about Ovation in this page. The Ovation Intruments Collectors Board Facebook page Ovation FanClub(tm) Group Facebook group The Ovation Decoder […]
Ovation guitars deeply influenced the American music in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. From 1966 to 2007 Ovation guitars has been a brand of KMC Musicorp, a subsidiary of Kaman Aircraft founded by Charlie Kaman. In 2008 KMC Musicorp (therefore […]
The Ovation Adamas is closer to an helicopter than to a traditional guitar. Being a guitar enthusiast, Charlie Kaman knew that a round soundhole puts undue stress on the top of the guitar, reducing its vibrating area and requiring additional […]
Charlie Kaman is the ingenious crazy splinter in the history of the American guitar. Extraordinary character, scientist, businessman, inventor, Charlie leaves a precious heritage of contamination, creativity and art of sound to the people capable of appreciating it.
For many years my acoustic guitars were almost exclusively Ovation. And for many years I had a lot of them, all together.. Then with advancing age, moving house and the end of the live gigs, I only kept the ones […]
This is a selection of pictures of me with my Ovation guitars. The oldest date back to the 70s.
Ovation: chitarre snobbate dai puristi puzza-al-naso, che le definiscono “di plastica”. In realtà sono strumenti interessantissimi, inventati per pura passione da un uomo che è ha incarnato dell’America migliore: Charlie Kaman. All’avventura Ovation ha partecipato anche il figlio di Charlie, Bill, una persona che ha sempre saputo restare discreto […]
The Ovation 1657 Anniversary has a bizarre story: designed in 1977 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the company, was in fact put for sale in 1979 and remained available until late 1982 (the last examples received the new Kaman […]
A project dedicated to the European market, the Adamas 1591 aka Adamas 3 was built in the late Nineties to celebrate one of the first Adamas prototypes, the #17, which dates from the first half of the ’70s. Not a […]
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