Travel Guitar

A Travel Guitar is a slightly smaller and lighter guitar that often fits in a small gig bag or backpack style gig bag. There are many big name guitar companies making travel guitars now and we will review four of them to help you find the best travel guitar.

Breedlove Passport Acoustic-Electric Travel Guitar
The Breedlove Passport travel guitar is one beautiful instrument. Breedlove has become a favorite among acousitc players for the fine guitars they produce and the passport is no different. This guitar has a solid Cedar Top with Mahogany back and sides and soft cutaway. LR Baggs pickup along with chrome hardware. A sophisticated little instrument that also travels well, is like playing a guitar capoed at the 5th fret. This unique voicing makes it a great addition to a standard tuned guitar and or mandolin. You can also try alternate tunings. The C25 Passport has a satin finish.

Martin Backpacker Travel Guitar
The world famous Martin Guitar Company also makes a travel guitar. It is the Martin Backpacker. Built for portable durability and great sound! Don't let the diminutive size of the Martin Backpacker Acoustic Travel Guitar fool you. A braced, solid tonewood top with a solid mahogany neck, back, and sides gives this cool little guitar a surprisingly big projection. Built to withstand the rigors of camping, hiking, and off-road traveling. Includes high-quality chrome-enclosed tuners. A unique bridge on the nylon-string version accepts either plain or ball-end classic strings. Weighs less than 2-1/2 lbs. Martin Backpacker Acoustic Guitar Features:

* Solid top * Mahogany neck, back, and sides * Enclosed chrome tuners * Lightweight, small size

Baby Taylor
Taylor's Travel Guitar is the Baby Taylor. The three-fourths-size travel guitar, with either solid spruce or solid mahogany top, makes a great-sounding traveling companion. The larger Big Baby (15/16 of full-size) has a spruce top and plays like a grownup. Both feature laminated backs and sides and come with a gig bag to help you get around. The Baby Taylor Dreadnought Acoustic Travel Guitar gives you sweet, full voice and open tone from an ultraportable 3/4-scale instrument. A solid Sitka spruce top, sapele arched back and sides, ebony bridge and fretboard, and laser-etched rosette look great and add crisp projection.

Washburn Rover RO10
The Washburn Rover is a popular travel guitar. Play the Rover any time or any place. Now you can easily bring your guitar with you when you're... on a plane, a boat, a car, the beach, camping, hiking... Anywhere! The high-quality RO10 Rover steel string travel guitar is built with a Solid Spruce Top, a mahogany neck & body, a rosewood fingerboard and quality geared tuners. The package comes complete with case, instructional CD ROM, strap and three picks. For over one hundred years, Washburn has built more than just great guitars, they've built a history. Since their birth in Chicago in 1883, the name Washburn has been branded into the world's finest stringed instruments. If your interest in guitars borders on passion, you will settle for nothing less than a Washburn. Recent years have marked incredible growth for Washburn. Nuno Bettencourt, Dimebag Darrell, Roger Waters, Bootsy Collins and Jennifer Batten have the distinction of being some of the few artists ever to be honored with a Washburn signature model guitar.

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