Modern Saint
Starve your Fear, Feed your Dream!
After years of looking around for an Ovation 12-String, I finally found a used one that plays and sounds well and also moderately priced - total score!
HNAGD!
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Elias Graves
Common misfit
I love the oak leaf epaulets.
Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
I just love that model. Good score!
Denverdave
Resident Ragamuffin
Congrats!
instantsteve
Glowing Cloud
I used to have a 12 string Ovation. The roundback didn't sit well with my round belly.HNGD!
Bowl, meet bowl. I resemble that remark.
nuke_diver
Riding Solo
HNAGD
Now go out and play some Melissa Etheridge
Now go out and play some Melissa Etheridge
Modern Saint
Starve your Fear, Feed your Dream!
Almost bought her signature model a few years ago as I found a used one for $1100. This baby cost me $599 with case and tracing the serial number was made in 1991. These models began sales in 1992 and is made in the New Hampshire, USA - Woo Hoo! I believe the street prices was about $1199 or $1299 with a list of $1695 according the Ovation site.
As for Etheridge I do like the tunes "Come to my Window" and "I'm the Only One" but I prefer to play Matchbox 20 as well as some other artists besides my own stuff on it. In fact I will be using this with my 6-String Ovation at an upcoming solo gig next week. Breaking her in!
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
What's the bowl depth? I always found the shallows comfortable, but the deep bowls sounded so much better (not just louder). The mid-depth bowls also sounded pretty good, but putting a nice solid spruce top on a plastic bowl doesn't seem right. The Adamas guitars, graphite tops on Ovation bowls...some of the best sounding acoustics I've ever played. That said, I'm no traditionalist, e.g.: the type that needs a dreadnaught without a cutaway, or all solid wood, or only from a certain era from a certain manufacturer or builder. I like a nice even tone on a cutaway (doesn't actually have to be an A/E though), and I'll manipulate my technique to accommodate different needs.
