Incursioni e riflessioni di Alberto Biraghi – online dal 7 febbraio 2001
I am always upgrading and fine tuning my collection, so from time to time I put my guitars for sale. Please consider that all of my instruments are in superb condition for the age, with the original case. I always keep, use and service them . . .
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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.
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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 three digits in red ink . . .
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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 tested in the hands of . . .
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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 him a sure credit). The . . .
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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.
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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 (by John Mitzel and Kim . . .
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The Adamas U681-T or “UTE” as the Ovation fans call it is the ultimate fingerpicking composite top roundback. It’s been produced in 2005 as a limited series of 100 guitars to commemorate the 40th anniversary of (I suppose) the year when Charlie Kaman considered building . . .
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Apparently 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.
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The Adamas 1881 is a special and rare Ovation guitar, the only one sporting a graphite top with a super shallow bowl. And in spite of being surprisingly thin, it delivers a decent amount of sound. Maybe it’s not as loud al my UTE nor . . .
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The Adamas (see the story here) is the Holy Grail of every Ovation enthusiast. The first I put my hands on is an Adamas 1587 that I purchased from Gruhn Guitars in the early 90s. When it was time to opened the box delivered by . . .
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The model was introduced late in 1981 to offer a more affordable guitar with the composite top of the 1687. To reduce the price Ovation used a standard 5 piece Ovation neck instead of the one piece American walnut. Also gone is the fancy ornamentation . . .
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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 bar so they lack the . . .
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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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These are the Ovation guitars that I had have sold. Only one is really missed, the Anniversary 1657-8. The others were let go because they had an issue, for one of my periodic reorganisations of my collection or just because I did not feel it . . .
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This is a selection of pictures of me with my Ovation guitars. The oldest date back to the 70s.
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