1995 Ovation Acoustic/Electric Guitar

1995 Custom Legend Ovation acoustic/electric guitar model # 1862 custom balladeer with a hard case; Serial number 434463.

This beautiful Custom Legend AX features a hand-selected, premium AAA grade solid-spruce top with LX scalloped bracing. This combination of premium soundboard materials and sonically tuned bracing produces more volume and less dead spots in the audio spectrum. Every note is clear and balanced no matter where you play on the fingerboard. The guitar s Contour composite body maximizes acoustic output and is ergonomically designed for comfort in any playing position. A cutaway offers full access to the gloss-finished, 5-piece mahogany/maple neck. The Custom Legend AX guitar also boasts a deluxe grade ebony fretboard and bridge, and hand-set abalone body and fretboard inlays. The traditional center soundhole has a gorgeous laser-cut oak-leaf and abalone rosette. With its onboard compressor, the OP-Pro Studio preamp enhances strummed chords, fingerpicked arpeggios, and single-note solos. Dual XLR and output jacks connect the Custom Legend to virtually any sound system, stage amp, or recording console.

History: Founder the Ovation Guitar Charles Kaman (1919–2011) developed the first prototypes of the Ovation guitar in 1965–1966. The first prototype had a conventional “dreadnought” body, with a parallel front and back perpendicular to the sides. By mid-1966, according to Ovation, they realized that the parabolic shape produced a desirable tone with greater volume than the conventional dreadnought.