Tuesday, October 30, 2007

keep your fingers crossed



fender doesn't SCREW with ovation (or kaman music in general).
i've played ovations and they're LOVELY instruments.


and a special shout out to the kamans for being so involved (well i don't know about now, i'm guessing they still are, i know they USED to be) in the fidelco guide dog organization


Kaman Selling Music Division
Fender Instruments To Take Over Business



By ERIC GERSHON Courant Staff Writer


In the colorful annals of Kaman Corp., this will be remembered as the year the music stopped.The Bloomfield maker of aircraft parts and helicopters is selling its 40-year-old Kaman Music Corp. division to Fender Musical Instruments Corp. of Arizona - maker of the celebrated Stratocaster and Telecaster electric guitars - for about $117 million.For Kaman - and American industry - the deal will end a long-lived and quirky business combination, one that blended the stone-sober practicality of aerospace manufacturing and industrial supplies with the whimsy, levity and creativity of musical instrument innovation............

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