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The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of guitars. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string acoustic guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. In 2015, it became a subsidiary of Drum Workshop after being acquired from KMCMusicorp.^[3]

The company's Ovation and Adamas guitars are known for their round backs, which gives them a recognizable shape. The latter are also well known for the use of carbon fiber tops (instead of the typically wood tops for acoustic guitars). Among musicians the relatively thin neck stands out as well, compared to other acoustic guitars.

• 3Initial marketing
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History[edit]

Founder Charles Kaman (1919–2011) developed the first prototypes of the Ovation guitar in 1965–1966.^[4][5][6] Kaman, an amateur guitarist from an early age, worked on helicopter design as an aerodynamacist at United. Eventually, he founded a helicopter design company, Kaman Aircraft, in 1945.^[7]

The Kaman Corporation soon diversified, branching into nuclear weapons testing, commercial helicopter flight, development and testing of chemicals, and helicopter bearings production. In the early 1960s, however, financial problems from the failure of their commercial flight division forced them to expand into new markets, such as entertainment and leisure. Charles Kaman, still an avid guitar player, became interested in making guitars.^[4][8]

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From 1966 to 2007 Ovation guitars, and later on Adamas guitars, were a brand of KMCMusicorp, which itself was a subsidiary of Kaman Aircraft.

In 2008 KMCMusicorp (and with that the Ovation brand) was sold to the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.^[9] In 2014, Fender announced that they were closing the Ovation guitar factory in New Hartford, Connecticut, leaving all production of Ovation guitars overseas.^[10] Before that announcement Fender established a U.S. production of various acoustic guitars in the New Hartford factory. Alongside Ovation and Adamas guitars, which were produced there for decades, Fender started a U.S. production of other Fender-owned brands in that factory, as is known, Guild (Guild Guitar Company) and Fender.^[11]

Shortly after closing the New Hartford factory^[when?] it was announced that the Ovation brand had been sold to the company Drum Workshop, alongside a few other previously Fender-owned brands. The announcement was made on January 7, 2015. In addition to the Ovation brand, Drum Workshop also bought the New Hartford factory and reinstated the previously ceased U.S. production of Ovation and Adamas guitars, basses, ukuleles and mandolins.^[12]

Research and development of first models[edit]

Charles Kaman put a team of employees to work to invent a new guitar in 1964.^[4][13] For the project, Kaman chose a small team of aerospace engineers and technicians, several of whom were woodworking hobbyists as well. One of these was Charles McDonough, who created the Ovation Adamas model.^{[history 1]} Kaman founded Ovation Instruments, and in 1965 its engineers and luthiers (guitar makers) worked to improve acoustic guitars by changing their conventional materials. The R&D team spent months building and testing prototype instruments. Their first prototype had a conventional 'dreadnought' body, with parallel front and back perpendicular to the sides. The innovation was the use of a thinner, synthetic back, because of its foreseen acoustic properties. Unfortunately, the seam joining the sides to the thin back was prone to breakage. To avoid the problem of a structurally unstable seam, the engineers proposed a synthetic back with a parabolic shape. By mid-1966, according to Ovation, they realized that the parabolic shape produced a desirable tone with greater volume than the conventional dreadnought.^[14]

Once the engineers had settled on a parabolic shape, they turned their attention to developing a substance that could be molded into this bowl-like shape. Using their knowledge of high-tech aerospace composites, they developed Lyrachord, a patented material comprising interwoven layers of glass filament and bonding resin.

The first successful design, built by luthier Gerry Gardner, went into production soon after the company was established.^[15]

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The first Ovation guitar made its debut in November 1966. Its Lyrachord body gave the instrument, according to the company, unprecedented projection and ringing sustain.^{[history 2]} Compared to modern Ovation Guitars, the initial instruments had a shiny bowl that was used again, for example, in the Balladeer 40th anniversary re-issue.

Initial marketing[edit]

The introduction and promotion of the first Ovation was closely associated with two performing artists, the blues-performer Josh White and the country-music singer Glen Campbell.

Josh White[edit]

In 1966-1967, the Ovation Guitar Company produced a signature guitar for Josh White, which was the first signature guitar made for an African American.^{[model 1][model 2][model 3][model 4]} White was the first official Ovation endorser.^{[history 3]}

Upon completion, the first Ovation Guitar was called the 'Josh White Model,'^{[model 5][model 6]} which White played at the Hotel America (Hartford, Connecticut), 14 November 1966; at the same show, the Balladeers played Balladeer models.^[2] The show was witnessed by '300 representatives of the press and the music industry'^[1]

Glen Campbell, 1968[edit]

The Ovation Roundback Balladeer first caught national attention in 1968 when Glen Campbell hosted a variety show he called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS, and in the following year, 1969, he became one of Ovation's first endorsers.^[4]

Design innovations[edit]

Ovation guitar design reflects its founder's engineering training and development of Kaman helicopters. Ovation guitars replace the instrument's conventional back and sides with composite synthetic bowls. Kaman felt there were structural weaknesses in the orthogonal joining of the sides, and that a composite material could provide a smooth body. Ovation claims the parabolic bowls dramatically reduce feedback, allowing greater amplification. Improved synthetics techniques from helicopter engineering control vibrations in the bowl. Ovation developed a thin neck, striving for the feel of an electric guitar's neck, but with additional strength from layers of mahogany and maple reinforced by a steel rod in an aluminum channel.^[16] The composite materials and thin necks reduced weight.

For its soundboards, Ovation uses Sitka spruce, a wood that Kaman engineers used in helicopter blades. In the 1970s, Ovation developed thinner soundboards with carbon-based composites laminating a thin layer of birch in its Adamas model. The Adamas model dissipated the sound-hole of the traditional soundboard among 22 small sound holes in the upper chamber of the guitar, which Ovation says yields greater volume and further reduces feedback during amplification (pioneered in the Adamas model in 1977).^[16] Although the area of the multiple sound holes is equal to the area of a single-soundhole, the altered position allows a new style of Guitar bracing (e.g. Adamas Bracing). The design strengthens the soundboard, reducing the traditional design's bracing and hence weight. In the 1980s, Ovation introduced shallow-bowl guitars to appeal to electric guitarists.

In 1977-1978, Gypsy, an Ovation performing and recording artist, designed the first stereo pre-amplifier for the Adamas 12 string and used it on his album 'Ladies Love Outlaws.' At the same time, Ovation provided small doors that blocked the sound holes from the inside in order to dampen feedback in the presence of loud stage monitors. Gypsy had also requested the addition of a round hatch in the back of the body of pre-Adamas guitars to facilitate changing the on-board battery, a feature that was then adopted for all the 'round holes.' Before this time, the strings on the round-hole guitars had to be removed to do this. On-board electronics let guitarists move about the stage rather than stay in front of a microphone. On-board electronic tuning, availability, uniformity, and frugal costs facilitated performances by guitar ensembles like Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft students. Ovation has also produced solid-body electric guitars and active basses.

Ovations reached the height of their popularity in the 1980s, where they were often seen during live performances by touring artists, such as Rush's Alex Lifeson or Paul Simon in The Concert in Central Park. Ovation guitars' synthetic bowl-shaped back and early use (1971) of pre-amplifiers, onboard equalization and piezo pickups were particularly attractive to live acoustic musicians who constantly battled feedback problems from the high volumes needed in live venues.^{[citation needed]}

Ergonomics[edit]

When he became one of Ovation Guitars's first endorsers, Glen Campbell suggested reducing the weight of the guitar, which he had discovered caused back strain.^[17] After that, Ovation reduced the weight of several models and pioneered 'super-shallow' guitar bodies.

While it was produced, Ovation's super-shallow 1867 Legend was the recommended guitar in Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft.^[18][19]Tamm (1990) wrote that the acoustic 1867 Legend has 'a gently rounded super-shallow body design that may be about as close to the shape and depth of an electric guitar as is possible without an intolerable loss of tone quality. Fripp liked the way the Ovation 1867 fitted against his body, which made it possible for him to assume the right-arm picking position he had developed using electric guitars over the years; on deeper-bodied guitars, the Frippian arm position is impossible without uncomfortable contortions.'^[18]

Model Overview[edit]

The Ovation Guitar Company produces guitars under the names Ovation and Adamas.

Ovation guitars have been also produced in China, South Korea and Indonesia. Import models generally have a wooden top. Recently, Ovation significantly reduced U.S production. From 2010 on, better models—Legend, Elite, Custom Legend, Custom Elite—were made both in the U.S. and in Korea. Before that, these models were U.S. made. In recent years, many U.S. made are identifiable by 'LX' in the product name (e.g., Legend 2077LX), whereas Korean versions have 'AX' in the model name (e.g., Legend 2077AX). Ovation does not use this convention on all models (e.g., Ovation 1617ALE). Currently, Ovation produces only a few U.S. made models, mostly signature and limited edition models (e.g., Custom Legend 1769-ADII Al DiMeola). Production of the standard model range of Ovation guitars in the U.S. has been ceased under the ownership of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, but is about to be reinstated by the new owner Drum Workshop.^[12][20]

The Adamas name mainly stands for guitars with a carbon fiber top, although there are exceptions (one is the Adamas 2081WT - WT stands for woodtop). Until the closure of the New Hartford, Connecticut factory in June 2014, all Adamas models were produced in the U.S.^[21]

Shooting frog game. LX does not only stand for U.S. made. Originally LX indicated an Ovation guitar that included new features not available on previous models.

Back in 2007 Ovation explained on its website that new features included the new OP-Preamp, an advanced neck system (lightweight dual-action truss rod, carbon fiber stabilizers), a patented pickup (made of 6 elements), inlaid epaulets, scalloped bracing, and a new hard composite Lyrachord GS body.^{[model 8]} Back then, there was no AX model line. The first AX models appeared on the Ovation-website in 2010. Based on the website's history, the LX features were introduced in 2004.

Upper-level guitars: Balladeer, Legend and Elite[edit]

There are mainly two lines:

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• Legend and Standard Balladeer models have one large sound hole as on most acoustic guitars (Standard Balladeer, Legend, Custom Legend - produced in Korea).

• Elites have several smaller sound holes (Standard Elite, Elite, Custom Elite - produced in Korea).

The first Ovation guitar model was a Balladeer (later known as Standard Balladeer)^{[model 9]}

• Ovation Model 1861 Standard Balladeer

• Balladeer

• Clasica Roger Waters model.

• Patriot

• Ultra (c.1995)

• Collector's Series 2007-BCS^{[model 10]}

Entry-level guitars: Applause and Celebrity[edit]

Ovation has two lines of entry-level guitars.Applause, the lowest cost line, with mainly laminated tops, is imported from China. Celebrity models are imported from China or Korea, and range from entry-to-medium level laminated top models, to high-end, solid top models with lots of ornamentation.

• Applause

• Applause AE-38

• Celebrity Deluxe CC257

• Celebrity CC44

• Celebrity LCC047

Electric guitars: Semi-hollow and solid bodies[edit]

In 1967–1968, Ovation introduced its Electric Storm Series of semi-hollow archtop guitars and basses. The pickups for these instruments were manufactured by Rowe Industries, who produced DeArmond music products in Toledo, Ohio. Production stopped in 1969.^[22]

In 1972, Ovation introduced one of the first production solid-body electric-guitars with active electronics, the Ovation Breadwinner. The model did not become popular, however, and production of the Breadwinner and the Ovation Deacon ceased in 1980. Ovation made several other solid-body models up until the mid 1980s.^{[model 11]} Since that time, the company has focused mainly on acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars.

• K-1260 Tornado (1967/1968), a thinline hollow body electric guitar^[23]

• Breadwinner (1970s)

• Deacon (1973–1982)

• K-1271 Viper (c.1974)^{[model 12]}

• K-1261 Magnum 1 bass (c.1978)^{[model 13]}

• K-1264 Magnum 4 bass (c.1978)^{[model 14]}

Other instruments: acoustic bass guitars, ukuleles, mandolins[edit]

Ovation also offers bass guitars, ukuleles, and mandolins.

• Ovation electro-acoustic bass guitar

• Ovation electro-acoustic ukulele

• Ovation electro-acoustic mandolin

Performers using or endorsing Ovations[edit]

Ovation guitars have been used and endorsed by many professional musicians, including:

• Glen Campbell; DJ Ashba, Melissa Etheridge, Nikki Sixx, Mick Thomson; Kaki King, Steve Lukather;
• Marcel Dadi, Ray Davies,^[24]Roy Harper,^[25]James Hetfield, Josh Homme, Dr. Hook, Cyndi Lauper, Alex Lifeson, John Lennon, Chad Morgan, Country Joe McDonald, David Gates, Roger Miller, Roger Voudouris, Cliff Richard, Jimmy Griffin, Janis Ian, Leonard Cohen^[26]
• John McLaughlin, Bill Connors, Larry Coryell, Yngwie Malmsteen, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Bob Welch, Stephen Marley, Lindsey Buckingham, Roman Miroshnichenko, Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen, Dave Mustaine, Vince Neil, Jimmy Page, Richard Daniel Roman, Harry Chapin, Alexander Rosenbaum, Shania Twain, Boz Scaggs, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Statler Brothers, Red Symons, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett, Van Morrison and Aaron Tippin;^[24]
• Bob Weir, Joan Armatrading, Roy Clark, Kevin Cronin, Pino Daniele, Fabrizio De André, Neil Diamond, Al Di Meola, Robert Fripp, Mick Jagger, Greg Lake, Adrian Legg, Paul McCartney, Brian May, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Freddie Mercury, Kenny Loggins, Jim Messina, Steve Morse, Eddie Rabbitt, Kenny Rogers, Richie Sambora, Tom Scholz, Seal, Bob Seger, Paul Simon, Rick Springfield, Austin WeinstockCat Stevens, Alun Davies, Jeff Lynne, Kelly Groucutt, Russell Javors, Steve Miller, Phil Judd, Don Spencer, Terry Kath, Judee Sill, Peter Cetera, Dave Mason, Eddie Van Halen, and Nancy Wilson;^[27]
• Dan Peek, Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley, Steve Khan, Roy Orbison, Davey Johnstone, Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Paul Weller, Rick James, John Denver, David Cassidy, Georg Kajanus, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch, Laurence Juber, Randy Jackson, Jorma Kaukonen
• Roger Waters and David Gilmour.^[28][29], Kevin Cronin, Ross Valory, Pete Carr, Maurice Gibb

• Heart'sNancy Wilson(pictured) plays an Adamas model.

• Melissa Etheridge's Ovation exhibited at Hard Rock Cafe Florence.

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See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Helicopter Pioneer To Make Guitars - Kaman Aircraft Corp. unveil radical Ovation line of acoustical guitars'(PDF). The Music Trades. December 1966.
2. ^ ^ab1966 Ovation Original Program(PDF). demonstration dinner show program. Ovation Instruments. November 14, 1966.
3. ^'KMC Music Sells Percussion Brands, Ovation Guitars to Drum Workshop'. Music Inc. Magazine. January 6, 2015.
   'Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) announced today that its subsidiary, KMC Music, has sold its owned and licensed percussion brands, including Gretsch Drums, Latin Percussion, Toca Percussion, KAT Percussion and Gibraltar Hardware — as well as the Ovation guitar brand and the exclusive U.S. distribution rights for Sabian Cymbals — to Drum Workshop, Inc., the manufacturer of DW drums, hardware and accessories.'
4. ^ ^abcdCruice (1996)
5. ^Carter (1996, pp. 24–36)
6. ^Press release 'Statement from Kaman Corporation, On the Death of Company Founder, Charles Huron Kaman'. Kaman Corporation. January 31, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
7. ^Carter (1996, pp. 12–16)
8. ^Carter (1996, pp. 17–18)
9. ^Press release 'Fender Buys Kaman'. American Songwriter. October 29, 2007. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
10. ^Press release 'Sounds Of Silence: Ovation Guitar Closing New Hartford Factory'. Hartford Courant. April 23, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
    The factory was reopened in October 2015 by current owner Drum Workshop, Inc.
11. ^Press release 'Factory Tour: Fender Acoustic Custom Shop • Guild Guitars • Ovation'. premierguitar.com. Premier Guitar. June 18, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
12. ^ ^abPress release 'Ovation to restart U.S. production'. JazzMando.com. July 22, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2015.
13. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 2 'A better guitar', p. 23)
14. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 2 'A better guitar': 'The roundback', p. 24)
15. ^'Time Off'. timeoff.com.au.^{[dead link]}
16. ^ ^abDenyer (1989, p. 48)
17. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 3 'Into production': 'Glen Campbell', p. 46)
18. ^ ^abTamm (1990, Chapter 10 'Guitar Craft')
19. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 7 'Bill Kaman and the KMC [Kaman Music Corporation]': 'Changes', p. 93)
    Caption for a picture of Fripp: 'English rocker Robert Fripp with a favorite instrument of his, a super-shallow bowl Legend'
20. ^'Ovation im Wandel'. Ovation Reference Shop (in German). Musikhaus Andresen GmbH. September 20, 2012. Archived from the original on March 18, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2012.
21. ^Dowling, Brian (April 23, 2014). 'Sounds Of Silence: Ovation Guitar Closing New Hartford Factory'. The Hartford Courant. Retrieved April 30, 2014.
22. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 4 Electrification: A brief Electric Storm, p. 58)
23. ^'Electric Storm Hollowbodies'. 40 years of innovation - Ovation Timeline, OvationGuitars.com. Kaman Music Corp. 2007. Archived from the original on August 18, 2007.
24. ^ ^ab'Artists'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on January 12, 2014.
25. ^'Ovation [Roy Harpers use of Ovation Guitars]'. Music UK (Guitar Special 1985): 84–85. 1985.
26. ^'Leonard Cohen's Equipboard'. [Equipboard]]. Equipboard Inc. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
27. ^Carter (1996, p. 127 (index), apart from Seal with bass guitar on p.100)
28. ^Fitch (2005, pp. 416–430, 441–445): Fitch, Vernon (2005). The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (Third ed.). London: Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. ISBN978-1-894959-24-7.
29. ^Fitch, Vernon; Mahon, Richard (2006). Comfortably Numb. A history of The Wall. Pink Floyd 1978–1981. PFA Publishing, Incorporated. p. 268. ISBN978-0-9777366-0-7.

Comprehensive history

1. ^ ^ab'Charlie Kaman's Story'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2014.
2. ^ ^ab'The History of Ovation Guitars'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2014.
3. ^'The History of Ovation Guitars'. Muncie, Indiana: World Music Supply. Archived from the original on December 18, 2013.

Model

1. ^'Ovation Josh White Model Brochure'. Ovation Instruments. 1967/1968.Check date values in: date= (help)
2. ^'History Detectives - Josh White Guitar'. Oregon Public Broadcasting / Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
3. ^'History Detectives - Josh White Guitar'(transcription). Oregon Public Broadcasting / Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
4. ^'Ovation Josh White'. OvationGallery.com.
   — Josh White was Ovations very first endorsee
5. ^'1965 Ovation Josh White - OM Acoustic Guitar'. Dream Guitars.
6. ^'Shiny Bowl Series 1966-1969'. OFC Members Serial Number List, OvationGallery.com.
   — Ovation early serial numbers, Josh White and Balladeer models
7. ^'Custom Legend 1769 ADII Al Di Meola: The ultimate Ovation'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
8. ^'Ovation Features - The LX Upgrade'. OvationGuitars.com. October 30, 2007. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007. Retrieved September 20, 2012.
9. ^'Ovation Balladeer'. OvationGallery.com. 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2012.
10. ^'Collector's Series 6 String Acoustic/Electric Guitar - 2007-BCS'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on January 4, 2010.
11. ^Carter (1996, Chapter 4 'Electrification': 'Ovation solidbodies', pp. 59–64, and 'Toward solidbody success', p. 65)
12. ^'Viper 1271'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2013.
13. ^'1261 Magnum 1'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2013.
14. ^'1264 Magnum 4'. OvationGuitars.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2013.

Bibliography[edit]

• Anonymous, Music Trades (October 1, 2004). 'Ovation's encore: How a host of product refinements have rekindled growth at Kaman Music's flagship guitar division'. The Music Trades. The Guitar Market. (subscription required). Archived from the original on February 28, 2011. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
• Carter, Walter (1996). Eiche, Jon (ed.). The history of the Ovation guitar. Musical Instruments Series (first ed.). Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Corporation. pp. 1–128. HL00330187, ISBN978-0-7935-5876-6, ISBN0-7935-5876-X (softcover), ISBN0-7935-5948-0 (hardcover).
• Cruice, Valerie (December 8, 1996). 'From the ratcheting of helicopters to a guitar's hum'. The New York Times.
• Denyer, Ralph (1992). 'Ovation guitars (Acoustic guitars)'. The guitar handbook. Special contributors Isaac Guillory and Alastair M. Crawford;>Robert Fripp (foreword) (Fully revised and updated ed.). London and Sydney: Pan Books. p. 48. ISBN0-330-32750-X.
• Marks, Brenda (May 30–31, 1999). 'Connecticut firm makes guitars, helicopter blades from same fiberglass'. Waterbury Republican-American. New Hartford, Conn.: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. (subscription required). Archived from the original on February 23, 2016. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
• Tamm, Eric (1990). 'Ten Guitar Craft'. Robert Fripp: From Crimson King to crafty master (Progressive Ears ed.). Faber & Faber (1990). Archived from the original on October 26, 2011.

External links[edit]

• Official website Ovation
• Official website DW Drums

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  Seeking information about my vintage Ovation Applause AA-31 acoustic guitar. Made in Korea. Serial # 134919.
  Front is green. Ovation date-finder says 1978 for this serial number but I've also been told that production in Korea did not occur until the early 1980's. Would love to clarify this and even find a print ad or brochure with this guitar. Any info would be helpful. THANKS!!
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  I have an Applause AE-32 - also MIK and looks very similar to yours. The serial number dates it to 1979 but, as you say, Ovation moved production of the Applause range to Korea in the early 80's so it's more likely to be a 1982 or 1983 make.
  Some pics of mine in this thread:
  http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/..-nylon-strings
  Also some info and a link to an early Applause brochure here:
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  I hope you enjoy playing your Applause - they are great old guitars.

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  Originally posted by 75guitarView Post

  Seeking information about my vintage Ovation Applause AA-31 acoustic guitar. Made in Korea. Serial # 134919.
  Front is green. Ovation date-finder says 1978 for this serial number but I've also been told that production in Korea did not occur until the early 1980's. Would love to clarify this and even find a print ad or brochure with this guitar. Any info would be helpful. THANKS!!

  I can't give you specifics, but I can tell you for certain that guitar wasn't made in the late 70s.. I had a late 70s Applause back when they were new, and they didn't offer that model - it was still the AA-14 aluminum necked models that were in the line back then, and they moved to wood fingerboards a few years later - about 1982/83 IIRC.
  I'd almost be willing to bet your guitar was made in the 1980s, although it is possible it could have come from the 1990s. And FWIW, I think they called that color blue, not green.

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    Thanks! Looks green but could be a blue/green and with light exposure and whatever over the years who knows if/how the hue has changed. And I have never seen 'green' referenced as an option in any of the Ovation literature I seen online. Maybe a new numbering system was put in place when Korean production began ??
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  Some info I found on the net
  The early Applause guitars did not say Ovation on them, because the plan was to sell them through a distributor rather than the Ovation sales force. The concept was to make cheaper copies of their own guitars before someone else did, and the goal was to build them with only one man-hour of labor involved. I don't think they ever reached that goal, but I believe that they were able to build them in less than 2 1/2 hours of man-hours. They used the same back as the Ovations, but had a laminated top (Ovations were solid), and as someone mentioned, the necks were aluminum, and the fretboard, support rod, headstock, and frets were one piece. Then they molded the back of the neck out of a plastic material, and finished it to feel 'just like mahogany!'
  They were introduced in 1976 or 1977, and were built in Connecticut. There was one big difficulty .. the aluminum frets tended to wear quickly, and could not be replaced. The original plan had been that the necks would be easily interchangeable, and that you could have the entire neck replaced for less than it would cost to replace frets on a wooden fretboard. That never became a popular selling point. The next step was to cover the aluminum frets with nickel plating, which helped a little, but they still seemed to wear quickly.
  Around 1982 or 1983, they moved production of the Applause guitars to Korea, and at some point after that, they did away with the aluminum necks. About that same time, they introduced the Celebrity series priced to be between the Applause and Ovation brands. I can't recollect when Applause added 'by Ovation' to their logo.
  Chances are that if next time you change strings you remove the saddle, there will be at least one shim underneath. This is how Ovations shipped. By removing a shim, you lowered the action at the 12th fret by 1/64 .. if you wanted to raise the action, Ovation and their dealers would give them to you at no charge.
  http://www.ovationtribute.com/Catalo.._Brochure.html
  The AA-31s were made in Korea beginning about 1983. There were no US made AA-31s to my knowledge. They have 'real wood' necks and fingerboards as opposed to aluminum. The nut width on my AA-31 is 1-11/16'. All AA-31s have laminated tops.
  

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  Originally posted by Phil O'KeefeView Post

  
  . . . . . . I'd almost be willing to bet your guitar was made in the 1980s, although it is possible it could have come from the 1990s. . . .

  I would say mid 80's but I'm not certain. I owned an Ovation Applause AE21 several years ago (sold it on) that had the usual Ovation headstock and also used the name 'Ovation' on the label ('Applause by Ovation') which the earlier Applause models didn't do - they had a different headstock and used the name 'Kaman' on the label.
  This is the later model:
  And this is the early model:
  The original Applause headstock:
  So it would be interesting to know when they made the change - it would narrow down the times.
  

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  Originally posted by MikeoView Post

  Some info I found on the net
  The early Applause guitars did not say Ovation on them, because the plan was to sell them through a distributor rather than the Ovation sales force. The concept was to make cheaper copies of their own guitars before someone else did, and the goal was to build them with only one man-hour of labor involved. I don't think they ever reached that goal, but I believe that they were able to build them in less than 2 1/2 hours of man-hours. They used the same back as the Ovations, but had a laminated top (Ovations were solid), and as someone mentioned, the necks were aluminum, and the fretboard, support rod, headstock, and frets were one piece. Then they molded the back of the neck out of a plastic material, and finished it to feel 'just like mahogany!'
  They were introduced in 1976 or 1977, and were built in Connecticut. There was one big difficulty .. the aluminum frets tended to wear quickly, and could not be replaced. The original plan had been that the necks would be easily interchangeable, and that you could have the entire neck replaced for less than it would cost to replace frets on a wooden fretboard. That never became a popular selling point. The next step was to cover the aluminum frets with nickel plating, which helped a little, but they still seemed to wear quickly.
  Around 1982 or 1983, they moved production of the Applause guitars to Korea, and at some point after that, they did away with the aluminum necks. About that same time, they introduced the Celebrity series priced to be between the Applause and Ovation brands. I can't recollect when Applause added 'by Ovation' to their logo.
  Chances are that if next time you change strings you remove the saddle, there will be at least one shim underneath. This is how Ovations shipped. By removing a shim, you lowered the action at the 12th fret by 1/64 .. if you wanted to raise the action, Ovation and their dealers would give them to you at no charge.
  http://www.ovationtribute.com/Catalo.._Brochure.html
  The AA-31s were made in Korea beginning about 1983. There were no US made AA-31s to my knowledge. They have 'real wood' necks and fingerboards as opposed to aluminum. The nut width on my AA-31 is 1-11/16'. All AA-31s have laminated tops.
  

  
  All of this lines up with my recollections. Again, I had one of the aluminum-necked Applause models (AA-14) when they first came out in the late '70s (got it for Christmas in either '77 or '78), then a Celebrity, then went to Ovations for acoustics in the 80s, so I'm pretty familiar with the brand and models from the era. My best guess is that the aluminum necks were made only in Connecticut - if they made them in Korea, they didn't do it for long - by the mid-1980s (and maybe as early as '82/'83/'84) Applause guitars were using more traditional wood necks.
  The bit about the frets wearing quickly on the aluminum necks is spot-on.

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  Originally posted by Phil O'KeefeView Post

  
  All of this lines up with my recollections. Again, I had one of the aluminum-necked Applause models (AA-14) when they first came out in the late '70s (got it for Christmas in either '77 or '78), then a Celebrity, then went to Ovations for acoustics in the 80s, so I'm pretty familiar with the brand and models from the era. My best guess is that the aluminum necks were made only in Connecticut - if they made them in Korea, they didn't do it for long - by the mid-1980s (and maybe as early as '82/'83/'84) Applause guitars were using more traditional wood necks.
  The bit about the frets wearing quickly on the aluminum necks is spot-on.

  
  I know a guy at work that has an Applause, I did not play it, but I have seen him play the thing. I believe he got it in the late 70's. I will ask him. There is wear makes on his neck. No pick up on his, cause I loaned him a clip on hole mounted pick up so he could use a PA.
  

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  The wear marks on the necks were really common too since it was just black paint over the aluminum fingerboard.

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