Ovation Solid Body Electric Guitars

 

1967 Josh White Model

It was in 1966 that Ovation Guitars first came on the scene. Their first instrument was "The Josh White Model" named for a folk singer. By February of 1967 Ovation introduced as the 'Balladeer'. 

Dan Peek of America

Ovation guitars reached the height of their popularity in the 1980s, where they were often seen during live performances by touring artists that played acoustic guitars in concerts. This was due to Ovation guitars' synthetic bowl, and early use of preamps, onboard equalization and piezo pickups. 

These were very attractive to live acoustic musicians who constantly battled feedback problems from the high volumes needed in live venues. 

The first Ovation guitar was developed in 1966 by Charles Kaman (pronounced like Command).

Charles Kaman

Mr. Charles Kaman, an amateur guitarist from an early age, received his bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering from the Catholic University of America in Washington. As a younger man he once sat in with The Tommy Dorsey Band when their guitarist did not show up. Dorsey offered him a job, but he turned it down. 

Mr. Kaman was working on helicopter design at the United Standard Corporation. Eventually, in 1945, he founded his own helicopter design company, Kaman Aircraft, The Kaman Corporation soon diversified, branching off into nuclear weapons testing, commercial helicopter flight, the development and testing of chemicals, and helicopter bearings production. 

But in the early 1960s, financial problems due to the failure of their commercial flight division forced them to consider expanding into new markets, such as entertainment and leisure. 

1967 Balladeer

As Charles Kaman was still an avid guitar player, he became interested in the making of guitars. Using his background in aviation engineering, Kaman designed a rounded bowl back, intended to improve the flow of sound through the guitar by using a parabolic shape to enhance the volume and tone. He then developed a new top bracing system. Although he kept the idea of using a wood soundboard, the body and sides of the guitar were manufactured of composite that he called Lyrachord. 

His company was already using Sitka Spruce to create helicopter blades. All that needed to be done was to shape it into a guitar body. The guitar necks were made of 5-piece mahogany interspersed with maple, which aided in durability. The fretboards were made of Ebony. 

1968 Tornado

By 1967/68  Ovation ventured into the electric guitar market with two semi-hollow body guitars: The Thunderbolt and The Tornado. The necks were made at Ovations Connecticut factory, but the bodies and hardware were made by the Hofner company of Germany.  The necks on the electric guitars were bolt-on, and usually made of a single piece of maple. Some models included ebony fretboards, while other had plain maple fretboards.

1968 Ovation Hurricane

In 1968 a 12 string version called The Hurricane was available, and in 1969 a bass guitar called The Typhoon was available  

Glen Campbell

In 1968 Glen Campbell met up with Charles Kaman and was presented with the first of many Ovation Balladeer guitars. He fell in love with it, especially because of the under-saddle piezo electric pickup. 

Campbell with Tornado Guitar 

He was also given a Tornado guitar. Glen featured both of these on his popular television show, The Glen Campbell Good-Time Hour. This certainly gave a boost to the popularity of Ovation guitars.

By 1972 Kaman/Ovation pulled the plug on their “Storm” series of electric guitars. Instead they implemented their first solid body electric guitar called The Breadwinner at a price of $349. This guitar was made in their New Hartford Connecticut facility.

The First Breadwinner

The Breadwinner guitar had a radical new shape that resembled a battle axe.  This was a play on the fact that guitarists referred to their instruments as “axes”. This guitar had an ergonomic shape and the player had easy access to all 24 frets. 

The pricing was less than a 1972 Stratocaster or an SG. Both were retailing at around $380 at that time.

The Breadwinner came with two single coil pickups with 12 pole pieces on a Mahogany body. The neck was similar to Ovation acoustic guitar necks however it was a bolt on style. 

Deacon 

By 1973 an upgraded version of this guitar, called The Deacon which included a gloss finish (rather than 'textured') and neck binding on the Deacon, and diamond neck markers. Both shared the same mahogany body, neck, ebony fretboard. And both guitars came with active FET electronics. 

"77 Breadwinner

In 1977 the Ovation Breadwinner Limited was offered. This guitar had a slightly different shape with a carve on the upper side. Very few of these guitars were produced, perhaps 150 to 200. Some  speculate builders at Ovation carved the body to make it more appealing and reduce existing stock.

Magnum Bass 

Then in 1974, Ovation designed a bass guitar called The Magnum I. This bass featured a double offset cutaway mahogany body, graphite reinforced neck, humbucker pickup (neck position) and double coil pickup (bridge position), stereo output, and a string mute. 

Magnum II Bass

The Magnum II was available that same year, with similar feature, but instead of stereo output, this bass featured a five-band graphic equalizer.   Both Magnum basses had Mahogany necks with 3 strips of carbon fiber embedded to prevent warping.

Ovation Preacher 

By 1975 Ovation offered a more conventional looking guitar they called The Preacher. It had the same attributes as the Breadwinner, and Deacon, but with two soft upper cutaways and a rounded offset  mahogany body. 

The Preacher was wired for stereo with two controls for the neck pickup and two separate for the bridge. So it could be fed to separate amplifiers. It also had a low impedance pickups, but came with a built-in FET preamp to boost the volume. This guitar also had a phase switch. 

Preacher Deluxe

That same year The Preacher Deluxe was in the catalog. This guitar came with a series parallel switch and a mid-range boost. A 12 string version of The Preacher was also available that same year 

1975 Viper

In 1975 a new model was offered by Ovation called The Viper. This was a  single cutaway ash body, bolt-on one-piece maple neck, that came with either maple or ebony fingerboard, two single coil pickups, 25 in. scale, master volume knob, master tone knob, three-way pickup selector switch. 

Viper III

The Viper III came out at that same time. It was similar to the original Viper, except this guitar had three single coil pickups with different individual windings, and three on/off pickup selector switches. 

Deacon 12 string

By 1976 Ovation offered a 12 string version of The Deacon. It had the same electronics and pickups, but came with a 12 string neck. 

Ovation UKII

In 1980 Ovation experimented with a guitar called the UKII or Ultra Kaman. Though this guitar appears to have a wooden solidbody with a mahogany grain, the body is actually made of Urelite foam over a cast aluminum frame. This idea came from the mid-’70s development of their Applause guitar,  

This guitar came with a bolt-on mahogany neck, gold hardware, bound ebony fingerboard, and fancy abalone inlays, all expertly executed. 

The twin-blade humbuckers each had a series/parallel switch to give you easy in/out of phase options. Otherwise the controls were conventional, with separate volume and tone controls for each pickup.  

Ultra GS

By the 1980's Ovation began outsourcing it's electric guitar production to Samick of Korea. In 1984 Ovation/Kaman introduced the Ovation Ultra GS, which was a Strat-clone that came with a 21 fret bolt-on maple necks with maple or rosewood fretboard, and a six-on-a-side headstock.

There were six GS variations (GS1-J, GS1-F, GS2-J, GS2-F, GS3-J, GS3-F - designated model numbers 1412, 1413, 1414, 1415, 1418 and 1419). The models had different pickup configurations, came with or without pickguard.

These guitars had different bridge options (Kahler Flyer or a traditional vintage strat style vibrato unit). The pickups were made by DiMarzio: either the DP-100 Super Distortion, the DP-103 PAF, the DP-108 single coils, or the DP-101 offset humbuckers. 

The guitar was available with 6 finish options: black, white, red, blue, sunburst and natural. Prices when new in 1985 started at $315 for the GS1-J and went up to $485 for a GS2 or GS3 with Kahler Flyer and sunburst finish.

Ovation Ultra GP

In 1985 Ovation offered the Ultra GP guitar, which was also manufactured in Korea. It featured a heavy hardwood body and set neck, topped with a beautiful rosewood fingerboard and large block inlay. This guitar had more of a Les Paul vibe, but with two distinctive offset cutaways, and an Ovation style headstock. The set neck (no longer bolt-on) had a nice slanted heel for easy access.

The hardware is top notch with Schaller parts and a screaming pair of DiMarzio Super 2 pickups wired to twin volume and tone controls with a 3 way selector. The guitar plays great and has incredible sustain. The tops got some of the best color finishes that Ovation ever put out on solid bodies - gloss black, sunburst, wine red and honey burst. The finishes were done at the Ovation factory.  

Despite how nice this guitar was, it never found much commercial success and the line was discontinued after only a few years. Rumors are that production numbers were only a few hundred or so, making it one of the more rare Ovations. 

Bill Kaman's
Hamer Esquire 

In 1988 the Kaman Corporation purchased Hamer Guitars.

By 2007 Kaman launched The Ovation VXT series of electric guitars. These instruments had more of a Les Paul shape, but the all had a chambered hybrid electric guitar. They were designed to blend authentic acoustic and electric tones. 

The VXT series featured solid spruce top, mahogany body, Seymour Duncan '59 humbuckers, and a Fishman Power Bridge with VIP virtual imaging preamp for acoustic sounds, allowing players to blend both signals. Based on the design the player could achieve stereo sound. The VXT was the last USA made Ovation solidbody electric guitar the company offered.  

In October of 2007 Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) acquired Ovation Guitars as part of its acquisition of Kaman Music Corporation, which included the brands Hamer and Latin Percussion. 

Ovation Factory Connecticut

FMIC later sold Ovation to Drum Workshop, Inc. in May of 2015. KMC, as it was then known, moved production to Asia, primarily China.  

Currently a German company Gewa owns Ovation which they purchased in 2020 from Drum Workshop. 

GEWA reopened the New Hartford Connecticut US factory to build its high-end instruments while outsourcing others to a Chinese factory. 

Glen Campbell Bluesbird

In 2018 Ovation/KMC worked with Glen Campbell's family to offer Limited Editions of The Glen Campbell Bluebird guitars that Glen originally received in 1988. 

He owned a six string and a twelve string model. Both instruments were built in the USA.

Roy Clark with Deacon 12

For a brief time Ovation made some very excellent solid body electric guitars. Players such as Glen Campbell, and Roy Clark endorsed these instruments and continued to play Ovation solid body instruments throughout their career. Despite this, they never really caught on and became popular.

Eastwood Breadwinner

Eastwood tribute guitars offers their version of The Breadwinner, The GP, and even a Breadwinner Electric Sitar.

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The History of Black Diamond Strings

 

Ed Sullivan and the Beatles 1964

In 1964 the Beatles made their first United States appearance on the Ed Sullivan television show. At that time I was 13 years old and like kids of that era I had to have a guitar.

Harmony Patrician

My Dad relented and bought me a late 1940’s era Harmony Patrician archtop acoustic guitar from a local pawn shop for $20.00. The salesman that sold it to Dad said, “Well you need a couple of things to go along with that guitar. You need a pitch pipe to tune it and you need an extra set of string, ‘cause that kid is going to break ‘em.” For an extra two bucks I got a pitch pipe and a new set of Black Diamond guitar strings.

Larry Cordel "Black Diamond Strings"

I had not thought much about those strings until last week when I turned on a local radio station that plays a variety of diverse music. That day they were playing Country music by some unfamiliar artists.

Black Diamond Strings Set

One song caught my ear since it was called Black Diamond Strings. It was all about how much joy they brought to guitar players back in the day.

Which is odd, because I recall how difficult it was to play guitar with those thick heavy gauged old Black Diamond strings.

The strings on the neck on that old Harmony were probably a good half and inch above the neck at the 12th fret.

1957 Strat

And when I put them on my first electric guitar, a late 1950’s Fender Stratocaster, the bridge saddle and block raised off the neck, which was great because the vibrato pulled up and down. But bending notes was another thing with those heavy strings. And talk about sore fingers and calluses!

Black Diamond Set

However Black Diamond Strings were available everywhere. You could get them at a drug store or a five and dime store. If you broke a number one E string you could get another for 20 cents. A pack of six new Black Diamond strings cost around three bucks.

1960's Gibson Guitar Strings

I was not aware that both Gibson and Fender sold their own brand of strings until a few years later. And it would be another ten years or so before Ernie Ball started putting string sets together with light and ultra light guage strings.


As we were kids, we had no idea that professional players were discarding the sixth string and replacing the first string with a .009 banjo string  and then using the remaining five strings.

Bell Brand Strings

After hearing that song I was very curious about Black Diamond Strings and there origin. I learned that the company that made them got started in 1897 when a merger occurred between three different companies. 

These were the Rice Musical String Company of New York, which was owned by Thomas Nelson Jr which made Bell Brand strings and the Standard Musical String Company of Connecticut.

The Standard Musical String company was owned by a Mr. Alexander Paul, who had already been making his own brand called Black Diamond strings. The last partner was a Mr. George Dow Emerson, who owned yet another a string factory in New Jersey. These men got together to form the National Musical String Company

National Musical String Co. 1898

The first step was the purchase of a factory building in Brunswick, New Jersey on Georges Road and the cities boundary. This structure was designed by a Mr. Ben C. DeKamp in 1897 specifically for this company. In fact it still stands in that same place to this day. The following year, 1898, the business started up.

NMSCO office

Interestingly enough advertisements for employment went out looking for mostly women employees. By 1899 the partners purchased another manufacturer called the American String Company.

Black Diamond stamping plates

It was in 1917 the last remaining partner, George Dow Emerson sold his shares to a Mr. William R. McClelland. Fifteen years later McClelland died unexpectedly of a heart attack.

This was in 1932 and the National Musical String Company was then bought by C. Bruno and Son Incorporated and James and Frank Gibson, who owned the Gibson String Company (which was not associated with Gibson Guitars).

From C. Bruno catalog - U of I library

Let me pause here because the history of C. Bruno or Charles Bruno is very interesting. Way back in 1837 Bruno was a bookseller. The following year he entered into a partnership with Christian Martin (yes THAT Christian Martin). Martin would manufacture guitars and Bruno would sell them.

Christian Martin

The partnership only lasted a year and both men went their separate ways, with Martin building guitars and Bruno selling musical instrument as a wholesaler.

C.Bruno and Son catalog

In 1851 Charles Bruno established another partnership with a man named Cargill that lasted for two years after which Burno brought his son, Charles Junior into the business. The company sold not just guitars and banjos, but all sorts of band and orchestral instruments, accordions, drums, harmonicas, music boxes and children's toy musical instruments. They became one of the largest music wholesalers and importers in the United States.

Bruno and Son was eventually purchased in 1970 by the Kaman Music Corporation (Ovation Guitars) and renamed the Kaman Musical String Company. The business was moved from New Jersey to Kaman’s headquarters and factory in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

National Musical String Co - today

However in 1982 the original National Musical String Company building in Brunswick, New Jersey was declared a historic landmark, as it was one of the oldest standing buildings in the state and it was placed on the list of national landmarks. Since then it was renovated for commercial space on the first floor. The upper floors house 38 residential apartments.

Black Diamond Strings - circa 1965

As I recall Black Diamond strings were sold in a black cardboard container with six individual reddish packs, each containing a string. The gauge of the string was not listed on the box or the pack, but instead it said B or 2nd Steel or E or 1st Steel. All I can say is they were heavy strings.

Individual strings

The container and each pack bore a quadrangular logo in the upper left corner with the company’s trademark stating NMSCO (National Musical String Company).  Some of the guitar strings would say silver plated steel while others would say silver plated copper wire. By far the most popular Black Diamond Strings were the silver plated stainless steel versions.

The National Musical String company made strings for guitars, Hawaiian guitars, banjos, mandolins and other instruments. I have also come across Black Diamond electric guitar strings that were made in later years.

Display Case for individual strings.

Back in the mid 1960’s most players that I knew did not purchase a new complete set of strings. More often than not if a string broke or sounded dead, we went to the music store and bought an individual string and those stores all stocked individual Black Diamond strings.


I was not certain if Black Diamond strings were still available and being curious I learned that in 1930 Ed Wackerle of Chicago, started a company to manufacture strings for bowed instruments. He was upset with the quality of strings being offered at the time. To achieve quality he put together an endorser panel; a group of players that would test the strings and suggest improvements. He came up with stainless steel strings and marketed them under the Red Label brand.

Then in 1967 John and Vincent Cavanaugh purchased the company and continued to manufacture Red Label strings. They moved the business to Sarasota, Florida

By 1972 a research and development department was set up to further enhance the strings quality. Out of this came the Old Fiddler Line of strings for Country, Western and Bluegrass players.

Improvements were made on cello and bass strings with the Supreme Line. The business was renamed the Super-Sensitive Musical String Company. In 1997 the grandson of the company’s founder took over the reigns and introduced computerized manufacturing.

John and Jim Cavanaugh

And in 2001 the Cavanaugh family purchased the name and trademark of the National Musical String Company/Black Diamond Strings. Once again, Black Diamond Strings are available, although under a new manufacturer with a high quality than ever before.

Current version Black Diamond strings

Black Diamond currently offers three different sets of electric guitar strings, including flat-wound strings and four sets of acoustic guitar strings, which include the original silver plated steel strings (.013 to .056) as well as 12 string guitar sets. These are available directly from the manufacturer www.blackdiamondstrings.com.

A special thanks to Chris of the Mudcat Cafe for some very interesting information on the history of the National Musical String Company.

**This is a reprint of an article I wrote in 2016. I was surprised when I went to the current Black Diamond Strings page under History of Black Diamond Strings to find my very words. I am honored the company would use my words and research, though I was not informed. I am very grateful for everyone that reads and enjoys The Unique Guitar Blog including the current owners of Black Diamond Strings.** 

History of Black Diamond Strings 

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Fibonnaci Guitars - High Quality Boutique Jazz Guitars

 

Fibonacci Guitars

Fibonnaci Guitars are Boutique builders of some of the most wonderful handmade archtop guitars. Their shop is in London, in the United Kingdom. 

The company takes it’s name from the Middle Ages Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci who was commonly known as Fibonacci. He popularized the use of our Hindu-Arabic system of numbers, favoring them over Roman numerals (my XVII year old grandkids wouldn’t know what Roman numerals are as they are no longer taught in US schools). 

Fibonnaci

Fibonnaci posited a series of mathematical problems and solutions including the Fibonacci Sequence that has become known as PHI, or the Golden Ratio. This states that a series of numbers where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. However I am straying from the point, as we are talking about guitars. 

Fibonnaci Ambassador Guitars

The builders and owners of Fibonacci guitars state “other than musical scales, we do not play any ‘numbers’ game.” As they create handmade guitars, they do this one at a time with no pressure to compromise on quality. Their goal is to build a guitar that is very special. And they certainly accomplish their goal. 

One of their most well known clients is British Gypsy Jazz guitarist Martin Taylor. Martin took up guitar at a very young age, being influenced by his father, bass player Buck Taylor. The elder Taylor played in the Quintette Du Hot Club De France (started by Django Reinhardt). By age 8 Martin was playing guitar in this band, and by 15 he quit school to play music professionally. 

Martin Taylor

Over the years Martin Taylor’s style evolved into more Jazz and Fingerstyle techniques. Martin and his family reside in Scotland. He has developed a long relationship with Fibonnaci Guitars. 

Lola & Joya

The company offers two Martin Taylor models. Both guitars are named after Taylor’s youngest daughters. 

Fibonnaci Joya

The Fibonnaci Joya guitar is a hand carved archtop with a three inch depth on its fifteen inch body. This guitar is built with a premium carved, 40mm, solid select spruce sound-board and carved solid flame maple back & sides. Fitted with a flame maple neck the fingerboard, finger-rest, floating bridge & tailpiece are all in Indian ebony. 

The electronics are hand wired with premium braded steel wire that is fitted to a premium Kent Armstrong Slimbucker floating pickup with a Birdseye maple cover. The only control is a 500k volume pot with an ebony knob. The guitar comes with a Hiscox insulated flight case. 

Martin Taylor with Lola

The other Martin Taylor model in the Lola. This is a slightly smaller instrument with a 13.77 inch body that has a depth of 2.2 inches. The Lola is hand carved with a solid select spruce soundboard, carved solid mahogany back, sides, and neck. The neck is topped with a hand made Indian ebony fretboard with no inlay. 

Fibonnaci Lola

The body also has an ebony finger rest, floating bridge and tailpiece. The LOLA is fitted with a hand wired split floating, Gold plateded Jon Dickinson PAF with switching via a Bourn push/pull tone pot. As with all Fibonacci guitars, it is completely hand wired in shielded, steel braided cable and fitted with premium components for increased performance and stability. This guitar also comes with a Hiscox Insulated Flight Case.

Fibonnaci will be glad to create a guitar for you, but they are quite pricey.  The Joya retails for $9,999 USD, while the Lola is $8,999. However these are totally handmade, hand carved, and built by very skilled craftsmen.

The company makes other models as well.

Chiquita 13

Their Chiquita 13 Model comes with a more compact body, 12.79" with a depth of 3".  It is built with a premium carved, hand graduated solid select carved Carpathian spruce sound-board, and carved European flame maple back & sides. The guitar is fitted with a maple neck the fingerboard, finger-rest, floating bridge & tailpiece are all in ebony. Completely hand wired in shielded, steel braided cable for increased performance and stability, and fitted with a black floating, Slimbucker Kent Armstrong humbucker, and black cosmo Gotoh tuners. Retail price with hand-wired pickup $9,199.  

Fibonnaci Roma 

The slightly larger Roma model is hand carved, hand graduated with a 14" body  that has a depth of 3". This contemporary archtop/acoustic ‘crossover’ guitar with a round sound hole. This unique instrument is built with a premium, seasoned carved, hand graduated select Carpathian spruce sound-board and solid carved European flamed maple back & sides with a maple neck. Ebony is used for the fingerboard, finger-rest, floating bridge & tailpiece. 

The ROMA can be enjoyed ‘unplugged’ or fitted with a LR Baggs bridge pickup to enhance this unique guitar's acoustics perfectly. This dynamic guitar is finished in natural blonde with nitro cellulose lacquer. It retails for $8,399 with the pickup.  

Fibonnaci Diablo 14

The thinline Diablo 14 has a body that is 13.77" at the lower bout and a depth of  1.75". This archtop guitar includes a Florentine cut-away, produced with carved, hand graduated Carpathian spruce soundboard, carved European flame maple back & sides, a maple neck, and complemented with solid maple binding throughout. 

The DIABLO 14 comes as standard with ebony fingerboard, scratch-plate, floating bridge & tailpiece. It is available with a single floating pickup or set-in twin pickups. Retail price with one pickup is  $9,499 add another $300 for an additional pickup. 

Diablo 15

The larger Diablo 15 is loosely based on our Diablo model, but with a 15” lower bout width and a super deep Florentine cut-away for easy access to the upper fret area. The DIABLO 15 is an archtop guitar with deep Florentine cut-away, produced with a hand carved spruce sound-board,  carved flame maple back & sides. The one-piece flame maple neck, is topped with solid Indian ebony fretboard and binding throughout. The  scratch-plate, floating bridge & tailpiece are also made of Indian ebony.  This guitar is fitted with a Jon Dickinson floating PAF. pickup. $9.999 is the price tag including case.  

Californian

Their Californian model is hand carved, and hand graduated with a 14.76” body and a depth of 2.48".  This archtop model consists of a premium, seasoned select European flame maple sound-board, back & sides, and a maple neck. The Californian is trimmed with solid maple binding throughout, and fingerboard, floating bridge, finger-rest & tailpiece are all crafted in solid ebony. With one pickup it retails for $10,349.  

Fibonnaci

The Fibonacci "Fibonacci" model is a completely hollow, double cut-away archtop, with 15.75”) lower bout, and a 2.20"body depth. The guitar's body  resembles a Gibson ES-330. This guitar is built from a carved, hand graduated Carpathian spruce top, with carved mahogany back, sides, and neck, 22 Jescar EVO Gold frets, and joins the neck at the 17th fret neck.  The hand carved neck has solid maple binding, ebony fingerboard and floating pickguard. This guitar comes with a gold, floating trapeze type tailpiece as standard, but a floating ebony one can be fitted if required. 

It also comes with a single floating ‘Micro Stealth’ Krivo pickup. The Fibonacci model retails for $8,949 with case. 

The company makes some other models with most being similar to what I have mentioned.  However one very unusual guitar is the Chiquita Custom Nylon String Masterbuild Archtop guitar. 

Fibonnaci Chaquita Nylon String

As someone who has studied guitars for over 50 years I have never seen an arched top nylon string guitar. This beautiful instrument is hand carved from AAAA Carpathian Spruce for the soundboard.  The back  and sides are carved from AAAA European Flame Maple. A custom oil finish is applied to all of the wood. 

The one piece flame Maple neck is topped with a fingerboard made of Indian Ebony as is the guitars tailpiece and finger rest. This instrument also has a custom made arm rest of Flamed Maple wood.  The frets are EVO gold wire. The guitar is fitted with a piezo LR Baggs Lyric pickup. With case included this can be your for $13,000. 

Reverb Ad for Fibonnaci Joya

If you are interested in purchasing a Fibonnaci guitar, I suggest checking out Reverb or Ebay. In researching this article I found the used market prices to be much less.

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