Finally, the perfect session instrument

eskin · Post by **eskin** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:07 am

http://www.manzer.com/more.tmpl?cmd=sea ... ta=2931-15

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:15 am

m31 · Post by **m31** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:44 pm

1000# of pressure!

There's probably at least two 2"x4"s under that soundboard.

alurker · Post by **alurker** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 12:02 am

What soundboard? That thing has to be machined out of a solid block of high tensile steel to withstand those forces! If it's not I wouldn't like to be in the vicinity when she blows

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ennistraveler · Post by **ennistraveler** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:59 am

What would you call it, escept hybrid?

Handy thing however!

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:41 am

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:00 am

It's both beautiful and utterly hideous at the same time.

missy · Post by **missy** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 10:55 am

and the reason I play mountain dulcimer instead of hammered dulcimer is because I don't want to tune all those strings..........

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:24 pm

alurker wrote:What soundboard? That thing has to be machined out of a solid block of high tensile steel to withstand those forces! If it's not I wouldn't like to be in the vicinity when she blows .

My duo partner's 30-year-old Ovation decided to field-strip itself onstage last year. Soundboard let go in 3 large cracks and 4 smaller ones, and the classical-style tuners came apart, sending bits through the audience. Members of the audience collected guitar chunks and returned them while I ran to the car for the backup: a nasty old Yamaha that still had seaweed stuck to it from the beach.

$1000 later, the Ovation lives. I stand on the side away from the headstock, now.

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:25 am

To each his own, I suppose. But $1000 to repair an Ovation....?

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:08 pm

crookedtune wrote:To each his own, I suppose. But $1000 to repair an Ovation....?

It was a a 12-fret, wide neck New Yorker style. He go me to look for one on Ebay, but apparently they're rare. The repair also included some decent electronics - seems things have come a long way in thirty years.

LimuHead · Post by **LimuHead** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:07 am

I'll admit it.

I want one!!!!

Aldon

brianormond · Post by **brianormond** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:38 pm

-Just let Norman Blake near that thing and look out!

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:15 pm

missy wrote:and the reason I play mountain dulcimer instead of hammered dulcimer is because I don't want to tune all those strings..........

That was my first thought. Imagine the harmonics you have to deal with on the overlapping strings.