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Monday, 9 July 2007

Is this the ultimate travel guitar?


After a recent comment thread on my Shredneck post I have been looking at alternatives for this device such as travel guitars, after all it would seem that the idea is to have a guitar or guitar substitute that can be carried around easily. At first I found the Traveler guitar which look great but are still pretty big, then I found the Soloette again, looks great especially with all the add-ons to make it a fully shaped guitar but still a bit on the large side to carry around. The same goes for the Martin Backpacker Acoustic.

Well today I came across another guitar that is not only revolutionary in its design but at its smallest, is only the length of the neck. The DeVillian Centrefold Guitar actually has a neck that unlocks and folds back onto the body, the strings are wound around the rotating bridge and apparently tuning is not affected during this whole process. Make sure you click on the continue button on the homepage and then the "Fold/Unfold the guitar" link which is rather stupidly hidden away thanks to the web designers deciding stupid javascript effects were more necessary than usability. If you don't manage to find the link click on this link to go to the press room photos.

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posted by Jon at 12:48

2 Comments:

G L Wilson said...

Hey, I've got a Traveler Pro-Series and it is a pretty small guitar you know. (The leg-rest is detachable). It's certainly smaller than that unpleasant-looking Soloette thing. In its gig bag you can sling it over your shoulder and you hardly know it's there. It's about the smallest full-scale length guitar you can get, although Risa also do a similar model (although I'd say it looks slightly larger than the Traveler - more wood behind the bridge area).

The other alternative is to go for a smaller scale instrument, like the Palm Guitar, or else use a baritone ukulele which you can play the same guitar chords on (more or less) and it's nicely portable.

10 July 2007 02:07  
Jonathan said...

I wasn't sure frrom the picture how big it was, I'll have to find a dealer in Sydney so I can go and have a play. Those electric ukele's look pretty small but then Ukele's usually are I suppose!

The palm looks a little quirky but has a seymour duncan humbucker which the site says "...is tapped with a 3 way pickup selector rocker switch to offer parallel/single coil/series tones."
Pretty handy for a travel guitar!

10 July 2007 09:19  

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