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Travel Guitars & Practice Instruments
People travel a lot these days. Many of us spend a lot of time commuting. Life can be hectic what with work, school, family & general maintenance tasks. There's little leisure time to relax and enjoy our hobbies. Those of us who love to play guitar ( & the other related fretted string instrument family) may find it hard to get time to practice or play. If we had a guitar with us wherever we went, we could use occasional moments between other things where we could play a few songs or practice some exercises. Likewise, on vacations, visits and business trips it would be nice to have an instrument on hand to play, practice & jam with. Inventors, designers and manufacturers realized this a few years ago and began developing products for the travel guitar market. Some of the companies and products we are aware of are:
These are very useful for practice but don't function as a complete instrument
Twanger PraxAx Twanger.com
LeTechnique LeTechnique.com
Hatfield BanjoBoard HatfieldMusic.com Hatfield/etc
Little Fretty - fret hand practice Fretocizer.com
Acoustic or Classical Style
Martin Backpacker MartinGuitar.com
Baby Taylor TaylorGuitars.com Taylor/etc
Tacoma Papoose TacomaGuitars.com Tacoma/etc
Applause Guitars Voyager KamanMusic.com
Golden Wood Travel Guitar www.mcn.org/b/goldenwood/travel.html
Washburn F1SK (Joey) Travel Guitar Washburn.com
Larrivee Parlor Guitar Larrivee.com Larrivee/etc
TommyHawk Travel Guitar TommyHawk.com TommyHawk/etc
Timm Guitars "Little Bear Traveler" TimmGuitars.com Timm/etc
Go Guitar Go-Guitars.com
Fender TG4 Acoustic Travel guitar Fender.com
Yamaha APXT 1 Steel string travel guitar Yamaha.com Yamaha/etc
Road -O- Phonic resonator BeardGuitars.com
Vagabond Travel Guitar Stringsmith.com
Ovation Celebrity Travel Guitar CC012 OvationGuitars.com
Andy Manson Travel Guitar AndyManson.co.uk
Fama Guitars Travel Guitar FamaGuitars.com
Electric Style
Traveler Guitar TravelerGuitar.com
SoloEtte SoloEtte.com
Stewart Guitars StewartGuitars.com Stewart/etc
Guitaround Travel Guitars Guitaround.com
Chrysalis Inflatable Guitars ChrysalisGuitars.com
PalmGuitar PalmGuitar.com
Etribe Travel Guitar Etribe.com
Chiquita Travel Guitar ErlewineGuitars.com Erlewine/etc
Tiny Traveling Timtone T4 TimTone.com
Tranjo Tranjo.com
Tranjo's Travel Instrument Page Tranjo.com/etc
Please email us at twanger@together.net about omissions, errors and comments.