The Applause Elite AE44 Acoustic Electric features all the essentials of the classic Ovation Elite sound and style, with a loud and focused voice, supreme playability and remarkable value that make it ideal for beginning and intermediate players. Premium features include a laminated spruce top with Elite-style multi-sound holes for clearly articulate tone, and a mid-depth Roundback Lyrachord body for greater volume and projection, excellent balance and supreme durability. The guitar also features fast, comfortable action and an easy-playing neck profile, multi-hardwood epaulettes for the classic Elite aesthetic, and an Ovation OP-4BT pickup/preamp system with built-in tuner for superior amplified tone and performance.

Don't say plastic! Lyrachord is a high-tech fiberglass composite material that can be precision-molded to any shape and thickness and yet remain practically indestructible. It can’t warp, chip, check or split. And Lyrachord is still the material we use today, to create these truly remarkable instruments. Listen for yourself. Hear the rounder, fuller, totally unique sound of the Ovation Roundback. Let your own ear confirm the difference that aerospace technology has created. We think you’ll agree, you’ve never heard it so good.

• Mid-depth Lyrachord® cutaway body
• Spruce top
• Nato set neck
• Ovation slimline pickup
• Ovation OP-4BT preamp featuring onboard tuner, 3-band EQ, volume control and low-battery light
• Rosewood fretboard with pearloid dot inlays (10" radius)
• Rosewood bridge
• Chrome die-cast tuners
• Multi-sound holes with solid hardwood epaulets
• Multiple body binding, single-ply neck binding
• Scalloped X bracing
• 20 frets
• 1.6875" nut width
• 25.25" scale length
• 15.875" body width (at widest)
• 5.25" body depth (at deepest)
• Natural gloss finish
• Made in Indonesia