Guitars wanted and for sale
Guitars I am looking for If you have one of the following guitars (should be very clean, no cracks, no issues, no mods, etcetera) and […]
Articoli di Alberto Biraghi
Il matrimonio è un sacramento (a proposito di primarie PD 2019)
“Il limite della sinistra italiana è stato quello di essere più ideologica che pragmatica, più interessata – nella dicotomia weberiana – ad affermare l’”etica dei […]
Elogio allo spritz e ricetta per farlo come si deve
Lo spritz è una bevanda gioiosa e buonissima, alla faccia di quelli che “non contaminano” il vino e di chi lo snobba definendolo “intruglio”. A fine […]
L’unicità della Shoah e dei suoi protagonisti
Ho ricevuto parecchie mail e commenti nei thread di condivisione della lettera aperta all’assessore Maran, in gran parte centrati sul tema (poco significativo) del “mi […]
Giardino dei Giusti: lettera aperta all’assessore Pierfrancesco Maran
In relazione al blocco del ministero ai lavori di “riqualificazione” del Giardino dei Giusti leggo sul Corriere della Sera una presa di posizione dell’assessore milanese […]
Risotto ai carciofi
Il meraviglioso carciofo è una gioia dell’inverno. Si usa in ogni modo, è sempre buono: crudo in pinzimonio o in insalata col parmigiano, fritto, in […]
La lettera di Carlo Calenda che riporta alla Milano del 2005
La lettera di Carlo Calenda al Corriere della Sera fa tornare in mente Milano del 2005. Si era alla scadenza di un decennio di sindaco-amministratore […]
Ho migrato le chitarre di plastica
In occasione dell’aggiornamento del tema di OneMoreBlog ho pensato di portare nel blog la vecchia pagina statica sulle mie chitarre Ovation, divenuta un po’ arcaica.
Ovation reference: dates serials models colors
A series of tables and lists that summarise serial numbers, model codes and colors of the Ovation guitars from the beginning to the end of […]
Ovation Collectors series 1982-2011
Produced each year from 1982 in limited numbers, the Collectors Series gave Ovation the opportunity to launch new technologies and new designs, giving birth to […]
An article from the Kaman Ovation website
I found traces of this article that once appeared on the official Kaman Ovation website, in “our story” section in the first decade of 2000. Apparently […]
The Ovation bowls: history and materials
I found this March 2002 post by Bill Kaman on the Ovation Fan Club forum. I save it here, just in case, because it’s precious.
Useful links about Ovation
There’s a lot of interesting information about the roundbak guitars on the Internet. I try to collect the best links about Ovation in this page. […]
Ovation story: from Charlie Kaman to Bill to FMI to DW Drums
Ovation guitars deeply influenced the American music in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. From 1966 to 2007 Ovation guitars has been a brand of […]
Ovation Adamas: the invincible guitar invented by a team of engineers
The Ovation Adamas is closer to an helicopter than to a traditional guitar. Being a guitar enthusiast, Charlie Kaman knew that a round soundhole puts […]
Charlie Kaman: the ingenious crazy splinter
Charlie Kaman is the ingenious crazy splinter in the history of the American guitar. Extraordinary character, scientist, businessman, inventor, Charlie leaves a precious heritage of […]
Gone but not forgotten: the Ovation guitars that I owned
For many years my acoustic guitars were almost exclusively Ovation. And for many years I had a lot of them, all together.. Then with advancing […]
Understanding the conceptual nature of Hung Kuen kung fu
Agter more than 44 years training the kung fu learned from master Chan Hon Chung, I still consider the traditional methods of teaching and training […]