Here you will find what Industry media outlets are saying about the Voyage Air – a real guitar that folds in half!
Vintage Guitar gave a Rave Review of the new Voyage Air Belair guitar in the March, 2011 issue.
“The Belair’s materials help it produce an array of tones. Chords chime, particularly through the bridge pickup, and there’s a good bit of sustain. The neck pickup, while warm-sounding, is tighter and more defined than the sound of a P-90 usually makes in a mahogany body… the bridge pickup is very full-sounding, with deep bass response…”
Guitarist Australia Magazine Review Voyage Air VAD-2
It folds, but how does it sound? by Kris Petersen
“…As far as acoustic guitars go, the Voyage Air is a great instrument. It has everything you would expect of a guitar in its price range and more. While the folding down of the guitar would appear to be a gimmick, the quality of the tones created and the craftsmanship gives it a clear advantage over other acoustics in its class.
The Voyage Air has really challenged what we previously believed constituted a good acoustic guitar. Having the ability to fold an acoustic in half to make it more portable is a clear cut advantage for the travelling musician. The fact that the guitar sounds and plays great as well makes this one instrument that you have to check out.
Our preconceptions about how it might sound were not only challenged but completely destroyed…
Harvey Leach – Cutting Edge Inlay – Feature in Premier Guitar Magazine
First, for those who don’t know here’s a little about Harvey…
Since 1972, Harvey Leach has been making guitars – building a total of 350 guitars, mostly flattops with about 20 archtops and electrics. He has been living in California since 1984, when he moved from his native Vermont.
Exactitude is one of Harvey’s main components in his stringed creations. He is also one of the best inlay artists in the world, commissioned by The Martin Guitar Company to adorn Custom Shop creations that sell for $100,000. He has also done inlay work for Paul Reed Smith, Collings, D’Angelico, Godin, Warrior, Warr, Jim Olson, Kevin Ryan, Lance McCollum, and others.
With over 35 years experience in building guitars, Harvey has designed and built guitars with hundreds of combinations of woods, using his innovative design and bracing variations. This gives him keen insight into the subtle design details that contribute to the tone of a guitar. Because all Leach guitars are hand-made from solid tonewoods, personally selected by Harvey, they are also pricey investments – with prices starting at $8,000.
Harvey used this experience to design two different models for Voyage-Air Guitar: a comfortable and fingerstyle-friendly OM-style guitar, and a traditional Dreadnought-size guitar. The size and shape of these instruments are familiar to any guitar player. But it’s Harvey’s advanced designs, and the subtle combination of internal and structural differences that sets Voyage-Air guitars apart.
Harvey affirms: “It was a challenge to adapt my designs for instruments produced in quantity, but I’m more than pleased with the results. At their retail price points, Voyage-Air guitars are world-class instruments. The fact that they fold in half for travel simply adds to that value.”
“I consider myself to be a traditional luthier who is always searching for a better way to do things by tapping the advances of today’s technology. It’s that thinking that led me to the Voyage-Air design. I often hear, ‘Why didn’t someone think of this before?’ The reason is two-fold: First, the more you ‘know’ about the details the less you might see of the big picture. For example, if you are endlessly debating the merits of dovetail vs. bolt-on neck design, then thinking about folding a guitar is completely outside of your realm of thought. Secondly, now is the time to meet the artist’s need for portability. In this portable age of laptop computers and cell phones, you should also be able to take your guitar wherever you go. That’s what Voyage-Air is all about.”
Harvey Leach – Cutting Edge Inlay – Feature in Premier Guitar Magazine
Acoustic Guitar Magazine Video Review of the VAD-2 by Teja Gerken, Senior Editor, Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Christian Musician Magazine feature By Bruce Adolph
This is a well thought out design that is really fun fold back and forth.
I would be traveling light this summer with one of these on my back!
