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OVATION Applause Elite Exotic

The Ovation brand has been synonymous with its round-back, fibreglass steel-string guitar designs since the company released its first acoustic guitar in 1966. Founder Charles Kaman and his team found that a carefully designed bowl-shaped back, which they constructed from a material dubbed ‘Lyrachord’, would produce a desirable tone with greater volume than a conventional dreadnought. Lyrachord is described by the company as

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