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Ovation Applause Serial Numbers Rating: 4,3/5 1428 votes Jump to navigationJump to search The Ovation Guitar Company is a manufacturer of guitars. Ovation primarily manufactures steel-string acoustic guitars (both 6 and 12-string versions) and nylon-string acoustic guitars, often with pickups for electric amplification. Serial Number Registration Below are the guitar serial numbers that have been registered with the Ovation Gallery website. Click on the buttons below to access the serial number registration lists per specific model type.

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THREEDIGIT SERIES

THREE DIGIT SERIES (Numberrange)	YEAR MADE	Comment
006-319	1966	Threedigits in red ink
320-999	1967(Feb-Nov)	NewHartford; three digits in redink
1000-	1967(Nov)-1968 (July)	Fourdigits in black ink, noletter prefix
10000-	1970(Feb)-1972 (May)	Fivedigits, no letter prefix
A+3Digits	1968(July-Nov)
B+3Digits	1968(Nov)-1969 (Feb)
B+5Digits	1974-1979	Magnumsolid body basses
C+3Digits	1969(Feb-Sept)
D+3Digits	1969(Sept)-1970 (Feb)
E+4Digits	1973(Jan)-1975 (Feb)	Solidbodies
E+5Digits	1975(Feb)-1980	Solidbodies
E+6Digits	1980(late)-1981	SomeUK IIs (does not reflectproduction)
F,Gprefix	1968(July)-1970 (Feb)
H,I,J,Lprefix	1970-1973	ElectricStorm Series

FourDigit Series

Firstdigit is always 1
Seconddigit is type of guitar:
1Acoustic roundbacks (also semi-hollowbody electrics)
2Solidbody and semi-hollowbody electrics
3Ultra acoustics
4Solidbody
5Acoustic electric cutaway Adamas and II/Elite/Ultra electric
6Acoustic electric roundbacks
7Deep
8Shallow
Thirddigit denotes bowl depth on acoustic andacoustic electrics:
1Standard bowl, 5 13/16' deep
2Artist bowl, 5 1/8' deep
3Elite/Matrix electric deep bowl
4Matrix shallow bowl
5Custom Balladeer, Legend, Legend 12, Custom Legend 12, Anniversary
6Cutaway electric, deep bowl
7Cutaway electric, shallow bowl
8Adamas, 6 1/16' deep
Fourthdigit denotes mode, for the first eightacoustic models:
1Balladeer
2Deluxe Baladeer
3Classic
4Josh White
5 12-String
6Contemporary Folk Classic
7Glen Campbell Artist Balladeer
8 Glen Campbell12-String
Colorcode follows hyphen after model number: (Please, follow this link) Ovation & Adamas Colors Chart

SIXDIGIT SERIES
1971-Present(ExceptAdamas)
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