I want to buy your travel guitar. I'm traveling to Haiti over spring break and then spending the summer in Spain. I can't bring myself to checking any of my acoustics and putting them under the plane, so I need some help in finding a decent travel guitar. I'd rather not buy one new so if you have one sitting around let me know.

2/13/2007 2:43:30 PM

One other suggestion. I don't have a travel guitar, but I'm a guitarist who got a strumstick as a present and I love it. It's made by the same guy that designed the Martin backpack guitar.

I've always found the backpack guitars hollow and tinney, but the strumstick sounds like a rich cross between a banjo and mandolin. It is sweeet, easy to play (even by ear), relatively inexpensive, and almost painless to cary. People always comment on it. I have a G, which I tune down to an E, and finger pick it.

They're $140 at the Strumstick site ($130 at musiciansfriend) and the cases are $20. Give it a listen:

http://www.strumstick.com/html_pages/sounds.html

P.S. - I also use a pizo acoustic pickup and run it through a battery powered microcube ... nice ... look in their catalog.

2/14/2007 8:41:42 PM