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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3280
Total number of notes:61432

769.0. "I want an Ovation" by TWEED::P_CUNNINGHAM () Thu Aug 11 1988 14:44

    Hi there
    I am an Irish student here in Westminster for the Summer, and I
    want to buy an Ovation round-back acoustic/electric before I go
    home. Does anyone either have or know where I can get, a second
    hand one. I would buy a new one for the right price. I don't want
    to spend more than $500.
    hopefully,
    Paul.             A1=Paul Cunningham @wmo   Vaxmail=wmois::p_cunningham
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769.1Check out Daddy'sANT::JACQUESThu Aug 11 1988 17:2111
    A friend of mine bought one that was factory reconditioned. It looks
    and plays like new. He bought it from Daddy's Junky Music in Nashua,
    N.H. for $339 including hard shell case. I couldn't believe the
    deal he got. I thought you couldn't touch them for less than $600.
    His has the shallow bowl body, cutaway, palathetic pickup with 2
    band EQ, and a sunburst finished top. Plays and sounds great.
    
    Check them out. They are a stones throw from Westminster Ma. 
    
    Mark Jacques
    
769.2Does this "stone" have booster rockets?VAXWRK::INGRAMThat was then, This isn't happening.Thu Aug 11 1988 18:396
769.3not that farANT::JACQUESFri Aug 12 1988 12:246
    From the Fitchburg area, I can be in Nashua in about 30 minutes,
    Westminster is the next town from Fitchburg. If you take route 13,
    you can get there much quicker than rt 2, 495, 3.
    
    Mark
    
769.4Lack of SuccessTWEED::P_CUNNINGHAMMon Aug 15 1988 17:506
    I went to Daddys in Nashua this weekend. It took 45 mins. I asked
    about a reconditioned guitar but they only get them once in a blue
    moon.  The only deal they could offer me was $720 + my Yamaha FG355.
    I will try music stores in this area (Fitchburg Music, Music Box,
    Acton Music )  Advise me please!
    Paul.
769.5Anyone with a smooth back?IND::COMAROWFor music, there must be silenceTue Aug 16 1988 21:298
    Now, 
    
    If anyone has any of the "smooth back" Ovations, they have thinner
    tops, necks that warp, I want it. 
    
    They need work, and were basically demo models, but they sound
    very different from the later models.  I had one, one of many guitars
    I regret losing.