Travel guitar

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Roberto Regazzi, Bologna 1985, Travel Guitar Elisa.jpg
Travel Guitar for Elisa Ricciarelli, made
by Roberto Regazzi in Bologna, 1985
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C.F. Martin Backpacker
Steel String and Classical models

Travel guitars are small guitars with a full or nearly full scale-length. In contrast, a reduced scale-length is typical for guitars intended for children, which have scale-lengths of one-quarter (ukulele guitar, or guitalele), one-half, and three-quarter.[ citation needed ]

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Although they were originally designed as a portable practice guitar, travel guitars have been used on stage by some professional performers. [1]

Examples

Examples of travel guitars include the following:

C. F. Martin & Company
A very small guitar with a body shaped like an elongated triangle, similar in shape to certain types of psaltery, and designed to be very portable and inexpensive while still being constructed of quality woods. The guitar is famous for having originally been designed by Robert McAnally before Martin took over the design, and was the first guitar to be taken into space. The guitar has also been taken up Mount Everest
Taylor

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dawe, Kevin (2010). The new guitarscape in critical theory, cultural practice and musical performance. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. pp. 59–60. ISBN   9780754667759.

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