Incursioni e riflessioni di Alberto Biraghi – online dal 7 febbraio 2001
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 Ovation brand) was sold to . . .
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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 bracing to keep the top . . .
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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.
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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 e cortese, nonostante l’agio in . . .
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