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Traveler Guitars
Traveler offers several models of travel sized bass, acoustic electric, and electric guitars. They offer the Escape, Escape EG-1, Escape MK-11 steel (acoustic electric), Escape MK-11 bass, Escape MK-11 nylon (acoustic electric classical), Pro-series, Speedster, and the Ultra-light. Check out their site for details on each of them.Website: Traveler Guitars -
Play Away Guitars
Play Away Guitars supplies the UK, Europe and all countries with travel guitars, silent guitars and lightweight travel bass guitars. They offer models to suit all styles, including jazz, classical, rock, fingerpicking, metal, country, and others. Brands include Aria, Sinsonido, Yamaha, Hofner, Soloette, TheBone, Ministar, Fernandes, Rees, Pignose, Kay and many others.
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SoloEtte Guitars
SoloEtte builds extremely unique travel electric, acoustic electric and nylon string guitars. They are solid construction, disassembling frame-design, practice and performance instruments. With the volume and tone controls you can adjust the output to be compatible with all headphones, or play through any mic input or CD input on "boomboxes", car stereos, Karaoke machines, etc.Website: SoloEtte Guitars -
Guitaround Enterprises
Guitaround offers six models of electric travel guitars. The "Guitaround" series comes in original, medium and small sizes. Built-in headphone amplifiers make these battery powered electric guitars virtually unobtrusive no matter where you play them. The Guit Go 2008 is a guitar you can play at the airport, subway, park or on a bus. The Compact Beatles is a travel guitar that is teardrop-shaped and pays homage to the Beatles. The RaGuit is a custom made teardrop-shaped travel guitar with a headless design.Website: Guitaround Enterprises -
Lehman Guitars
Lehmann offers the model 1887 with a travel guitar option. It is a full sized acoustic instrument with a removable neck that will fit in your suitcase or store in the overhead of an airplane. The strings are tangle free because of a keeper bar that slides into the bridge. The guitar itself includes mahogany back and sides, a rosewood fingerboard, inlaid wood soundhole rings, black or ivoroid bindings, and a rosewood bridge.
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Blattenberger Guitars
Blattenberger makes custom made travel sized lap steel guitars. The standard lap steel guitars are 24 inches, but they offer 22, 25 and 26 inch sizes too. The standard woods are curly maple for the tops and mahogany for the backs. They also offer 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 string models, as well as a new electric acoustic model.
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Washburn Guitars
Washburn offers the RO 5 Minstrel travel dulcimer with a spruce top and mahogany back/sides. The RO 10 Rover is a full size 24" scale acoustic travel guitar, also with a spruce top and mahogany back/sides.Website: Washburn Guitars -
Adirondack Guitar
Adirondack offers left handed acoustic and electric travel guitars and basses, including the Fernandes Nomad Deluxe, MiniStar, Wechter, Martin BackPacker, Traveler Escape EG-1, and Stagg Viaggio guitars. The BassStar is a left handed travel bass.Website: Adirondack Guitar -
iCoustic
The iCoustic travel bass from Alvarez features mahogany sides and back, a rosewood fingerboard, custom cables for iPod/MP3, and the iCoustic System already installed.Website: iCoustic -
Palatino
The Palatino travel bass is the best selling travel size stand-up bass in America. The VB-004 features a spruce top and arched maple back. The neck is hand carved from solid maple.Website: Palatino -
Martin Guitars
Martin and Company offers two types Backpacker travel size guitars, a classical and a steel string. Each acoustic model has many features that are unique to the Backpacker, such as the construction, body size and top bracing pattern.Website: Martin Guitars -
Michael Collins Guitars
Michael Collins is one of the few luthiers in North America to build reproductions of the Selmer and Maccaferri gypsy jazz style guitars in a travel size.Website: Michael Collins Guitars -
Taylor Guitars
Taylor offers two main travel size acoustic guitars, the Baby Taylor and the Big Baby. The Baby Taylor is the ultimate travel companion. It is three-quarters the size of a regular guitar, great for little hands or young kids. The Big Baby is slightly bigger than the Baby Taylor and just shy of a normal sized acoustic guitar.Website: Taylor Guitars -
Go Guitars
This company specializes in travel size acoustic guitars. The four types currently offered are GO Mahogany, GO Walnut, Go Grande Mahogany and GO Grande Walnut. The Grande styles are a thicker design with more air volume giving them a larger sound. All GO travel guitars weigh 3 pounds or less.Website: Go Guitars -
Breedlove Guitars
Breedlove Passport Series acoustic guitars are designed for ultimate portability without tonal sacrifice. These comfortable, easy to play acoustic instruments are the perfect choice for the musician on the move. They offer mini-Travel guitars (look for the T at the end of the model number) as well as Full Scale (FS) instruments. FS models have a 25.5" scale and a slightly down-sized body, while mini-Travel instruments have a mini body, a short scale, and are tuned up a fourth from standard. Gig bags are included.Website: Breedlove Guitars -
Shapelywood Guitars
Shapelywood offers handmade personal travel guitars in three different acoustic electric models: the Classical, Leisa and the Skinny. All soundboards are made with spruce, and backs/sides and necks are made with either mahogany, walnut, maple or spruce. Neck widths vary from 43 to 52.
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DeFaioite Stringed Instruments
The Suzanna was designed as an acoustic travel guitar but is also fun to play at home. This instrument is designed with a 605mm scale length and 16 frets clear of the body, giving great upper neck access. It can be tuned to standard E-E with light or medium gauge strings.Website: DeFaioite Stringed Instruments -
Tacoma Guitars
Tacoma Guitars offers two travel size acoustic guitars; the P1 Papoose and the P112 Papoose. The P1 is portable with a natural color, a light satin finish, and a rosewood fingerboard and bridge. The P112 is a 12 string version of the P1.Website: Tacoma Guitars -
Stewart Guitars
Stewart Guitars offer two main travel size electric guitars. Both are full size, full scale guitars that come into two pieces. The Road Runner has a solid alder wood body, three single coil pickups, rosewood fingerboard, and much more. The Stow Away offers 22 medium frets and a linear tuning system.Website: Stewart Guitars -
Vagabond Travel Guitar
Vagabond offers one travel size acoustic guitar at 33 inches in length, 8 inches in width, and only 2 3/4 inches in depth. It has a solid spruce top, mahogany neck, rosewood fretboard and bridge, laminated birch back and sides, and an adjustable truss rod. They also offer a left handed model.Website: Vagabond Travel Guitar -
Wechter Guitars
Wechter builds the Travel Elite series of acoustic and acoustic electric guitars. Options include a spruce top (with or without amplification) and a mahogany top (with or without amplification). Website: Wechter Guitars -
Miranda Guitars
The Miranda acoustic electric travel guitar and case fits most airplane carry on compartments, featuring one minute set up and take down. The body of this guitar folds up to fit in it's case. Headphones are included and it comes in either steel string or nylon string (classical) models.Website: Miranda Guitars -
Yamaha Guitars
Yamaha offers the SLG100S "silent" travel guitar (used with headphones, comes in either steel or nylon string), and the APXT1 and APXT1N acoustic electric travel guitars.Website: Yamaha Guitars -
Brunner Guitars
Brunner offers the travel size acoustic "Outdoor Guitar" with a detachable neck and compact hardshell case.Website: Brunner Guitars -
Kinal Kompact Guitar
This travel guitar comes in both acoustic and acoustic electric models, with a sitka top, mahogany back/sides, and a 24" scale.Website: Kinal Kompact Guitar