Guitar Story
Guitar Story
Model · Ovation
An Ovation acoustic, introduced 1976[1]. Built on the Ovation imports (Celebrity, Applause, Elite import) line.
Blue Book: offered to dealers 1975 as the Ovation Medallion, renamed Applause a year later; built in Connecticut 1975-79, Korea from 1980 (S514).
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] | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
| 2015–2020[3, 11, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 9, 10] | Drum Workshop, Inc. (DW) | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
| 2020–now[17, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 9, 10] | GEWA music GmbH | — | Asian contract plants for Ovation (Korea/China/Indonesia; builders unverified) |
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