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Pro Sound And Features That Won’t Empty Your Wallet!

It starts with the comfortable, unmistakable roundback design…a perfect balance of tone and playable comfort. And this Celebrity is dressed up, too, like lots of its much more expensive Ovation brothers and sisters.

The CC28 Celebrity features a black finish, super shallow bowl, laminated spruce top with modified X-bracing, 20 fret white bound rosewood fingerboard with abalone dot inlays, 25-1/4" scale length, 1-11/16" nut width, pinless walnut bridge with compensated saddle, and Ovation`s slimline pickup with OP4BT preamp.

The bold tone created by Ovation’s CC28 Celebrity produces plenty of high-end power generated by the Spruce top, and preamp with 3-band EQ, tuner, and gain control. Other features include gleaming sealed gold tuners, multi-ply top binding, and round soundhole with inlaid abalone rosette for pleasing visuals.

A bound rosewood fingerboard and a slim `U` shaped neck make the Celebrity one of the easiest-playing guitars in the business. And the super shallow bowl provides comfort without sacrificing sound quality.

The OP4BT preamp offers +/-12dB control over the bass, midrange, and treble frequencies for great tonal flexibility. The on-board tuner is easy to use and helps you stay perfectly in-tune, even when using open or non-standard tunings.

Ovation has applied 40 years of guitar making to design an affordable guitar that sound’s expensive!


Features:

Type: 6-String Acoustic/Electric

Body Type: Super Shallow Cutaway

Top: Laminated Spruce

Bracing: Ovation `X` Pattern

Dovetail Neck Joint

Nato Mahogany Neck

Scale Length: Length: 25 1/4”

Fretboard: White Bound Rosewood

Fret Inlay: Abalone Micro Dots

Bridge: Walnut Pinless Bridge w/Compensated Saddle

Rosette: Inlaid Abalone

Pickup: Ovation Slimline Pickup

Nutwidth: 1 11/16”

Machines: Gold

20 Frets

3-Band EQ

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What Our Customers Are Saying…

Hi Jason: Got the Ovation about 3pm & have managed to pretty well destroy my fingertips ever since. It`s great. The cherry finish is unreal. I love the auto-tuner, or whatever it is called. That is so cool. I never had a guitar with anything like that before. Once I get "back in shape" so to speak, I may take a look at your Ovation 12 strings. I would have LOVED to have an auto-tuner for the damn 12-string Martin. It seems like it takes all day to tune that - especially to tune it without breaking the "high" G-string. Thanks for your help. Richard

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Ovation History:

Acoustic Becomes Electric.

Ovation guitars first captured the interest of professional musicians who wanted an acoustic guitar with greater projection on stage. The most visible of these guitarists in the late `60s was Glen Campbell. Every week Glen and his Ovation were welcomed into millions of homes around the country, as America tuned into The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.

DURING THIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH OVATION, Glen asked for an instrument with a built-in pickup so that he could come out from behind a microphone when he played.

There had been a number of attempts to make a pick-up for the acoustic guitar, but each attempt had flaws. Glen`s guitar-playing friend, Jerry Reed had a classical guitar with an under-saddle pickup that didn`t sound half bad.

The concept of the pickup was right - piezo crystals under the bridge saddle - but it was made for a nylon string guitar and suffered from tonal and string imbalance problems, accentuated when used on a steel string.

OVATION ENGINEERS STUDIED THIS GUITAR and then set about creating a new pickup of their own. Up until then, playing acoustic on stage either meant standing in front of a microphone, using a magnetic pickup mounted in the soundhole, or using a stick-on bug on the soundboard.

None of these worked very well particularly if there were drums or electric instruments in the band.

The engineers saw that a successful pickup would have to have the right balance sensing top vibration and string vibration. Getting the balance right would give the best acoustic tone and the greatest volume.

Their solution became part of the first professionally accepted acoustic/electric guitar ever made. That pickup is still in use today on the acoustic/electric Ovations. The sound is well balanced, the output is very high and the saddle is properly shaped for accurate intonation.

Piezo pickups have a very high impedance, which means that the sound can change over long cable runs. In order to prevent this, Ovation designed a buffered preamp that lowered the impedance, preserved the tone and controlled the output.

This was the beginning of the acoustic/electric guitar. Bill Kaman recalls, "Our first preamp was a very clean design. It had two contour filters to enhance the "acousticness" of the sound, and combined with bringing the impedance into the right range, the guitar sounded very rich and full. The first preamps were volume only. Later we added a tone control to the circuit as well as offering a stereo preamp."

"IN THE BEGINNING ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THE GUITARS we built had pickups. Ten years later, 90% of our guitars were acoustic/electric. The truly amazing thing is that it also took about 10 years before any of our competition began to offer acoustic/electric models as standard in their line."

While the Ovation pickup has remained the same, the electronics have kept pace with the players` needs and sound reinforcement technology. Over the past 25 years, Ovation has maintained its leadership as the dominant acoustic electric guitar in the world.