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Location: RI. That small State out East | I had a chance to stop in the Elderly Instruments store yesterday... Nice place. They had a great selection of Ovations all over... 3 different rooms. I played #9 out of 50 "FD14" It does boom and has a great low end. I must have stayed over an hour playing 3 different Ovations.
Now for the sad part of the story. The only info the sales team could come up with on "any" Ovation was a "1999" Ovation catalog... Nothing on the Adamas line... No info.
I have some ideas that I hope to share at the end of the week. I really don't think the sales Dept. knows how bad the lack of info is hurting.
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Location: NJ | woz
I have current catalogs. |
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Location: Houston, TX | Did C. Bruno handle the distribution and marketing for Ovation up until a couple years ago?
Did they do a good job, and if so, does their absence explain some of the lack of information and knowledgable dealers out there now? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Elderly is a great store, just bought two chairs from them for the new summer house, pickin-glider chairs. Every gitter picker has to have one. |
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| cwk2,
how much did you pay for those chairs? did it come with the gliding foot rest also? |
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Location: RI. That small State out East | Al, I don't need a "new" catalog. I figured I'd get one this week... If you go to a "nice" store and you play a couple of great guitars (Ovation) and you ask for some info that you can go home and look at... Nothing.
I just picked up a "how to buy your first guitar"... book in a borders last night to look through. They recomend never to buy on the first visit. Shop and compair... By the way the book did mention Ovation as an option...
If a large music store (400 guitars hanging)doesn't have a single piece of Ovation lit and the rep was in two weeks ago... Something is wrong. I have some ideas.
Woz
I did sit in the Picken chairs... Nice. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The chairs were 375 I think. I did not order the optional gliding foot stool. It is on my Christmas list so there may be one under the tree. Of course the tree will be in adifferent state than the summer house. Always had good experiences dealing with Elderly, although I've never been there.
The Music Emporium is a greast store while we're talking good stores. In Lexington Mass. Must have been 200-300 good high end acoustics on the walls. Like a wine store and they are all on their sides and with real corks. That's where I got the CJ-41 Collings. Mostly new stuff but some vintage, no electric, no Ko-Reean, and no plastic. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Musician's Friend has the chairs for $319.00
I noticed those and really need to get one! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Maybe it was $345 per chair. I forget, it was so long ago (last week) |
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Elderly visit Lansing MI