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Fender To Close New Hartford Guitar Plant Sounds Of Silence: Ovation Guitar Closing New Hartford Factory A Kaman Music Corp. musical instrument manufacturing. Work in New Hartford will end by June. Fender will continue to make Ovation guitars in China, South Korea and Indonesia. The decision ends half a century of guitar making in Connecticut that began with spare wood initially bought to make helicopter rotors by Charles Kaman, the founder of Kaman Corp, which sold the guitar business to Fender in 2007 for $117 million. Kaman Corp. ran the business alongside its aerospace operations for decades. Kaman was an accomplished jazz musician. After Fender bought the company, Kaman Music Corp, it moved the production of Guild and Hamer guitars to New Hartford in 2008, citing the region’s skilled labor … Read entire article »