| The year was 1966. Guitars had already been around | | | | they did was break the first rule of making a guitar. |
| for some time. People expected them to be more or | | | | They chucked the idea of the flat body completely |
| less of a certain type and design. There weren't any | | | | and made the round body. This design actually gave |
| real radical innovations in the manufacture of the guitar. | | | | the guitar a more consistent sound from the bass end |
| And then came along a company by the name of | | | | to the treble end. They also made the guitar stronger |
| Ovation. They weren't going to just make another | | | | and more sturdy.Today, Ovation makes a large |
| guitar. They were going to come out with something | | | | number of guitar models including the LX Series |
| completely different. So in 1966, when they broke out | | | | Standard Balladeer. This guitar is a 6 string acoustic |
| into the scene, they came out with their very unique | | | | electric. Its body is a mid depth bowl type. It has a |
| round back guitar, thanks to a guy by the name of | | | | bound rosewood fretboard, rosewood bridge and |
| Charlie Kaman. The pro musicians of the time | | | | original patented pickups. The Standard Balladeer is |
| absolutely loved the guitar. The guitar purists were not | | | | one of Ovations most popular guitar models.Then of |
| quite as enthused. They just didn't get it.The odd part | | | | course you have the Custom Legend guitar series. |
| of how this guitar actually came to be had nothing to | | | | The 1779 USA model has a painted American Flag on |
| do with guitar manufacture at all. Kaman's knowledge | | | | the body that is just breathtaking. It also has a mid |
| of helicopters and more specifically, helicopter blades, | | | | depth body, bound ebony fretboard and ebony bridge. |
| game him a really good understanding of vibration and | | | | Even if you don't play the guitar, this is one show piece |
| applied this principal to the making of his new guitar | | | | that just having around the house is going to bring up |
| model.Kaman said that he didn't want to just make | | | | lots of discussions.The Elite series has a mid depth |
| another guitar. He said that we had the technology to | | | | cutaway body type. The fretboard is bound ebony |
| make something truly different and not only different, | | | | with an ebony bridge. It comes with an Ovation |
| but better. So Kaman chose a team of engineers and | | | | Hi-Output pickup which is really loud. This is one guitar |
| technicians from the aerospace industry to work on | | | | that you won't have any trouble hearing even in a |
| his new project. It didn't hurt that many of these guys | | | | large hall.These models only scratch the surface of the |
| had taken up woodworking as a hobby.What these | | | | Ovation guitar line, all featuring their round |
| scientists had come up with was that the common flat | | | | body.Whatever the critics might think, these guitars |
| body of the guitar was actually not a help but a | | | | sound like none other on the planet. |
| hindrance to the sound of the guitar. So the first thing | | | | |