Applause AE128 Super-Shallow Bowl Cutaway Acoustic-Electric Guitar

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The Applause AE128 offers great sound for a great price. The Applause AE128's super shallow bowl makes it especially easy to play.

The Applause AE128 offers classic Ovation design and styling at a fantastic low price. Designed for superb sound quality and easy playability, the affordable AE128 acoustic-electric guitar features the famous super-shallow roundback body, calibrated Spruce top, slim neck for fast and effortless action, built-in pickup/electronics system, and cutaway neck access. The OP4B electronics include a Gain knob, a battery LED, and Bass, Mid and Treble EQ sliders. The award-winning value is due to its heritage of being born on the drawing tables at Ovation.

- Body Style: Super Shallow Roundback Cuatway
- Top: Spruce
- Back: Composite
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Fingerboard Inlays: Dot
- Bridge: Rosewood with dots
- Rosette: Chevron pattern
- Scale Length: 25 1/4 inch
- Nut width: 1 11/16 inch
- Number of Frets: 20
- Tuners: Chrome
- Electronics: OP4B

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 877-526-2668

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. (65 ratings)
Submitted March 15, 2006 by a customer from hotmail.com

"it's all good.."

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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for an inexpensive acoustic electric, I think it's a great product. Good sound, great playability.

Sound
Sounds great and projects well. Although I bought it to play through an amp, it's plenty loud unplugged. Cam with good quality strings. Action was perfect for me - low, no fret buzz. For action, you can adjust bridge height with shims if desired, or of course adjust the truss rod.

Features
as listed in the specs. Came with a allen wrench for the truss rod. For $200 delivered, I'm not expecting too many freebies.

Ease of Use
out of the box, this was the most playable guitar I've bought. I would say the frets are 'medium' size. the neck has a basic finish, which makes it very easy to slide your hand on - no sticky laquer. came with a very brief manual describing adjutment methods.

Quality
Made in china...but no problems. Better QC than a Korean guitar I just got for a similar price. No finish flaws or anything else. Comes with a tag/checklist the QC inspector signs...maybe that makes a difference.

Value
Well - there is a lot of chinese made stuff out there in this price category. And when you consider the 'bowl' is made of some sort of plastic... Having said that, I think given the level of quality, it's a good value. I wouldn't call it a steal, as I've seen no-name similar guitars for 25% less.

Manufacturer read more Support
applause doesn't have much of a web site, just a 2 page pdf which is out of date on the Kaman web site - which in today's age I'd say is pretty lame. haven't had a need to contact them though.

The Wow Factor
Im glad I bought it, it's a good quality guitar - nothing super special though. I wanted an acoutstic - elec for the collection...

Musical Background:
hobbyist

Musical Style:
rock, country, blues
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