Ovation Guitars

For more than fifty years Charles Kaman brought his idea of a modern guitar to the global market. As an ambitious guitarist he realised his dreams and founded Ovation Guitars, a guitar company of a rather different kind. He was on the one hand inspired by traditional standards, and on the other equipped with a pronounced openness to new technologies, which he owed to his roots as a developer and manufacturer of helicopters.
Charles dared to approach guitar building in a way that still polarises today. The distinctive Lyrachord fibre-reinforced plastic composite combined with a parabolic roundback body shape were the ingredients for a completely new sonic experience on an already well-populated acoustic guitar market.

The ultimate breakthrough was enabled by the electro-acoustic version of the Ovation guitar. Here too Charles's experience in the aerospace industry proved decisive for a development that resulted in the first piezo pickup. This made it possible for acoustic guitarists to remain present within a full-band arrangement, and for soloists to perform at large open-air events without compromising their sound.
This unique sound, coupled with the playability of an electric guitar, still makes Ovation guitars a must-have for players in clubs and stadiums alike.

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