Guitar Story
Guitar Story
In 2017, Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) controlled the Ovation name. Its 2 lines on record were built at New Hartford CT (Kaman/Ovation plant) and Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) (USA, South Korea, China and Indonesia).[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
A Ovation guitar from 2017 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], 52 years before.
| Line | Controlled by | Parent | Built at | Era | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ovation imports (Celebrity, Applause, Elite import) | Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) South Korea / China / Indonesiano source | 2015–2020 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] |
| Ovation USA (New Hartford) | Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) | — | New Hartford CT (Kaman/Ovation plant) New Hartford, CT, USA[13] | 2015–2020 | community[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12] |
Nothing changed in 2017. Every era running that year carried on from an earlier year, so a Ovation from 2017 is the same version as one from 2016.
Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) and New Hartford CT (Kaman/Ovation plant). 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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