Guitar Story
Guitar Story
Model · Ovation
An Ovation acoustic, introduced 1983[1]. Built on the Ovation imports (Celebrity, Applause, Elite import) line.
Blue Book Applause page: Celebrity introduced 1983 (S514). Korean-built with US backs per same source.
No changes to this model’s spec are on record yet. If you know one and have a source, send it with Suggest an edit at the top right.
The eras of the Ovation imports (Celebrity, Applause, Elite import) line in the years this model was made. No end year is on record, so the last row runs as far as the line does. The model rides on its line: when the owner or the plant changed, it changed for this model too.
| Years | Owner | Parent | Plant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2015[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | Servco Pacific Inc. and TPG Growth (equal partners in Fender) | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
| 2015–2020[3, 13, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 11, 12] | Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
| 2020–now[19, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 11, 12] | GEWA music GmbH | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
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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