The Applause has undergone some design changes over the years, but the quality is still there. These days the Applause range is made in China. Now they could, and there were waiting lists in some places to get them.
Ovation introduced the Applause range as its cheapest entry-level guitar. They were never cheap, and a lot of young players who wanted them couldn’t afford them. Drum Workshop stepped in and bought Ovation and a few Fender subsidiaries and kicked them out of Connecticut and brought Ovation ‘home’ as it were. They started manufacturing their own range of very poor guitars from the same Connecticut site.
All production was moved overseas, and they banished them to the Far East.įender then embarrassed themselves even further. The toys came right out of the Fender pram…Īnd mirroring the Gibson/Epiphone saga, they closed the Ovation factory in Connecticut. They bought Ovation in 2008 and promptly realized that Ovation was better at it than they were. It had to be either Fender or Gibson, and with Ovation, it was the former. They were doing very well, but then we have a classic example of corporate whining. Probably ought not to forget John Lennon, Eddie Van Halen, or Mark Knopfler. Cat Stevens, Brian May, Chet Atkins, and Glen Campbell. I liked it, and a few years later, I bought one. A couple of years later, I came across one in a music shop. The irony of it is, that he can actually play very well. What is that, I thought? I was dying to hear him play it, but apart from a couple of chords, he didn’t. He would do his act with a guitar around his neck. The first time I saw one was at a Jasper Carrott concert in London. However, they developed quite a fan base despite the usual traditionalists whining. Ovation first went into production in the late 60s and caused quite a stir with their composite plastic back.
The Ovation Applause 6 String – Overview.
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