Travel guitar
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Travel guitars are small guitars with a full or nearly full scale length
, as opposed to normally proportioned half and three quarter scale length guitars intended for children.
Examples include
Scale (string instruments)
In stringed instruments, the scale length is the maximum vibrating length of the strings to produce sound. In the classical community, it may be called simply "string length" or less often "mensure." On instruments in which strings are not "stopped" or divided in length like for example the...
, as opposed to normally proportioned half and three quarter scale length guitars intended for children.
Examples include
- HöfnerHöfnerKarl Höfner GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, with one division that manufactures guitars and basses, and another that manufactures other string instruments....
Shorty - C. F. Martin Backpacker. A very small guitar with a body shaped like an elongated triangle,similar in shape to certain types of psalteryPsalteryA psaltery is a stringed musical instrument of the harp or the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece dates from at least 2800 BC, when it was a harp-like instrument...
, and designed to be very portable and inexpensive while still being constructed of quality woods.