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The Ovation Guitar Company, a holding of Kaman Music Corporation , is a Guitar manufacturing company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut , USA . Ovation primarily manufactures Acoustic Guitar s. Ovation guitars are notable because the instruments are made with a Composite synthetic bowl, rather than the traditional wooden back and sides of the modern acoustic guitar, as produced by Luthier s starting in the late 18th Century . Ovation has also produced solid body Electric Guitar s. A lower-priced version of the bowl-back Ovation design, known as the Applause Guitar , has also been produced. Developed starting in 1966 and introduced as the 'Balladeer' in February , 1967 , Ovation has sought to bring modern materials and construction techniques to guitar building. INNOVATIONS Charles Kaman gained extensive knowledge of composite plastics as an engineer designing rotor blades for helicopters, working with Igor Sikorsky . He reasoned that the negative effects of vibration in wooden rotors were in fact a positive in acoustic intruments that required controlled resonance to produce pleasing musical tone. As a guitarist as well as an aerospace engineer, he developed the round-backed composite-body Ovation guitar as a way to produce uniquely modern instruments. The extensive number of models, many of which are collectible by virtue of their obscurity, are still mainly distinguished by one or two characteristics: the aforementioned synthetic bowl and early use ( 1971 ) of Preamp s, onboard equalization and Piezo pickups. Such features made Ovations particularly attractive to live acoustic musicians who constantly battled Feedback problems from the high volumes needed in live venues. Other Ovation innovations include composite tops and '''multiple offset Sound Hole s''' on guitar tops, pioneered in the Adamas model in 1977 . MODELS The following Ovation models have been produced (not comprehensive):
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