Guitar Story
Guitar Story
In 2014, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation controlled the Ovation name. Its 2 lines on record were built at Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) (South Korea, China and Indonesia).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
A Ovation guitar from 2014 belongs to whichever era was running on its product line that year. An era is a stretch when the company that controlled the name and the plant that built the line both stayed the same. If you know the line, the table below tells you which version of Ovation you have. The name dates from 1965[S163], 49 years before.
| Line | Controlled by | Parent | Built at | Era | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ovation imports (Celebrity, Applause, Elite import) | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) South Korea / China / Indonesiano source | 2014–2015 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] |
| Ovation USA (New Hartford) | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | — | No plant on record | 2014–2015 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified). See every brand each plant built for, and every plant in the same country:
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
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