In other words, 35% was Congress applauding and doing standing ovations.
I repeat: Over one-fourth of Netanyahu’s speech consisted of Congress applauding and doing standing ovations. 10:55 of the 40:30 of Netanyahu’s exhortation consisted of applause. In Netanyahu’s pep rally, rather speech before the US legislative branch, Congress interrupted to applaud 39 times. To say it was just well received would be to commit the callous crime of understatement. A bit too ecstatic-verging on the delirious. If there is one word to describe Congress’ response to the affair, it would be “ecstatic.” In the drug-addled sense. Such an occasion did not occur without much hullaballoo in the US press, primarily because the foreign head of state was invited directly by Capitol Hill. I am the emissary of all Israelis, even those who disagree with me. I am leaving for Washington on a fateful, even historic mission. ‘Twas on this fateful day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, addressed US Congress, in what one might refer to as an historic occasion- the lector himself saw no problem in proclaiming it to be. The bit about the frets wearing quickly on the aluminum necks is spot-on.US congresspeople got quite the workout on the morning of March 3, 2015. My best guess is that the aluminum necks were made only in Connecticut - if they made them in Korea, they didn't do it for long - by the mid-1980s (and maybe as early as '82/'83/'84) Applause guitars were using more traditional wood necks. Again, I had one of the aluminum-necked Applause models (AA-14) when they first came out in the late '70s (got it for Christmas in either '77 or '78), then a Celebrity, then went to Ovations for acoustics in the 80s, so I'm pretty familiar with the brand and models from the era. All AA-31s have laminated tops.Īll of this lines up with my recollections. They have 'real wood' necks and fingerboards as opposed to aluminum. There were no US made AA-31s to my knowledge. The AA-31s were made in Korea beginning about 1983. if you wanted to raise the action, Ovation and their dealers would give them to you at no charge. By removing a shim, you lowered the action at the 12th fret by 1/64. I can't recollect when Applause added "by Ovation" to their logo.Ĭhances are that if next time you change strings you remove the saddle, there will be at least one shim underneath.
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About that same time, they introduced the Celebrity series priced to be between the Applause and Ovation brands. The next step was to cover the aluminum frets with nickel plating, which helped a little, but they still seemed to wear quickly.Īround 1982 or 1983, they moved production of the Applause guitars to Korea, and at some point after that, they did away with the aluminum necks. That never became a popular selling point. The original plan had been that the necks would be easily interchangeable, and that you could have the entire neck replaced for less than it would cost to replace frets on a wooden fretboard. the aluminum frets tended to wear quickly, and could not be replaced. They were introduced in 1976 or 1977, and were built in Connecticut. Then they molded the back of the neck out of a plastic material, and finished it to feel "just like mahogany!"
They used the same back as the Ovations, but had a laminated top (Ovations were solid), and as someone mentioned, the necks were aluminum, and the fretboard, support rod, headstock, and frets were one piece. I don't think they ever reached that goal, but I believe that they were able to build them in less than 2 1/2 hours of man-hours. The concept was to make cheaper copies of their own guitars before someone else did, and the goal was to build them with only one man-hour of labor involved. The early Applause guitars did not say Ovation on them, because the plan was to sell them through a distributor rather than the Ovation sales force.