Kaman Music Corporation | Introduction
Introduction
20 Old Windsor Road
Bloomfield, Connecticut 06002
U.S.A.
Telephone: (860) 509-8888
Fax: (860) 509-8891
Web site: http://www.kamanmusic.com
Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Kaman Corporation
Incorporated: 1966 as Ovation Instruments, Inc.
Employees: 370
Sales: $145.4 million (2003)
NAIC: 339992 Musical Instrument Manufacturing; 423990 Instruments, Musical, Merchant Wholesalers
Kaman Music Corporation manufactures Ovation, Adamas, and Hamer guitars and is also the largest independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories in the United States. Created by pioneering helicopter designer Charles Kaman in the mid-1960s, the firm's revolutionary "roundback" fiberglass composite body Ovation guitar has been embraced by such musicians as Paul McCartney, Glen Campbell, and Jon Bon Jovi.