Ovation Guitar Company
| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Musical instruments |
| Predecessor | Ovation Instruments, a division of Kaman Aircraft (c. 1964) |
| Founded | c. 1965, New Hartford, Connecticut |
| Founder | Charles Kaman |
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| Parent | GEWA music Gmbh |
| Website | ovationguitars.com |
The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of string instruments. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. In 2015, it became a subsidiary of Drum Workshop after being acquired from KMCMusicorp, and in 2020 was sold to GEWA Music.
The company's Ovation and Adamas guitars are known for their round backs, which gives them a recognizable shape. The latter are also well known for the use of carbon fiber tops (instead of the typically wood tops for acoustic guitars). Apart from guitars, the company currently produces acoustic basses, mandolins and ukuleles.