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I was on a trip to Morocco with the family in 2022. I wanted to play guitar at the beach and some nice places there so I took my Voyage Air Guitar with me. I record a music video of my song “Sunday Morning” at a really nice castle in El Jadida.
Erich Grubmüller
Editors Note: This submission had been lost in the archives, sorry Bob!
On the Road COVID-19 Style and OOPS
Australia (mainly)
It’s been a challenging year for many reasons. I consider us very fortunate, mostly by happenstance. We had booked travel home to California in February after our Summer season in Australia but that was cancelled due to very early intervention by the Australian Government. All of a sudden we were hosting 7adults in Sydney in 4 isolation zones and figuring how to rearrange everything we had planned like everyone else. Renovations done and 3 months of various lockdowns and mandates later we had acquired a VW 4WD camper van and took every opportunity to escape during breaks in lockdowns and interstate border closures. As of this writing we are again in Tasmania after 22,000 km camping and road trips from Cape York south to Hobart. A constant companion has been my venerable Voyage Air guitar.
At my last writing we had been to 49 countries. Australia closed borders to travel but we managed one exception, to Norfolk Island, for our anniversary and Christmas making to total now 50 Countries!
Now for the Oops – and another reason why Voyage Air is the must have travel companion…
In an act of absent minded neglect, at a camp area called Craggy Peaks near Ben Lomond, I leaned my guitar against a swivel chair which took zero effort to swivel. As we all know if a disaster is to happen, it happens quickly and in the perfect spot to inflict maximum damage…
Broken – but again fortunate because (1) the neck is removable and (2) my son was climbing the Ben Lomond cracks near-by and he lives in Hobart while studying Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley and (3) he lives in a shared house with someone who repairs antique furniture. After climbing and visiting the neck went home and was glued…
Within 3 days I re-assembled my guitar (remember where your shims go) and restrung it and we are now on the road to Freycinet…
I don’t recall seeing in the Voyage Air website the added advantage of removable (as opposed to folding) necks but it should definitely be there because ‘stuff’ happens, but the best repairs are the running repairs.
Hope you are all staying safe out there – we have permission to leave Australia now – rest assured it will be with my Voyage Air.
Bob Smith
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Bob Smith CRADLE MOUNTAIN – TASMANIA
These guitars have great sound!
I bought the basic Transit Series guitar online a couple of years ago. As soon as I tried it, my first thought was, “If I had known it would sound this good, I would have spent more money and got an even better one.” Every guitarist I know has been impressed with how good this sounds. I finally realized it would be easy to find someone to take this off my hands if I got a new one.
So now I have the Premier Cutaway, VAOM-3CG2. I noticed right away that it seems to do a very sophisticated job of distributing the tone from the bass strings to the treble strings. I changed the strings from light (VoyageAir strings, .011 to .050) to Medium (.012 to .054), and now it is easy to hear the difference in tone between the low strings and high strings. I brought it to the club where I play solo regularly, and the people who know my style and sound noticed it too. The sound is very rich, great for finger-style playing. I can use it to make big sounds or play lyrically. I always thought that classical guitars were required for that kind of variation, but now I can do it with steel strings.
Thank you, VoyageAir!
George Coleman
Model VAOM-02SN Purchased February 2018. Covered with a black garbage bag for transport on my motorcycle exposed to temperatures 34F to 104F.
Left stored in camp tent all across the USA in all types of weather, still playing sweet and looking good. European airlines are strict about overhead size, my experience, will not fly overhead in Europe. USA airlines lax you can get it by and into the overhead.
Had to give an update just returned from cycle trip, playing around the late night campfire with my VA was again great. Love this guitar it has endured, very well, the abuse of traveling on my motorcycle. Strapped on rear seat in photo.
Larry Norwood
Read more – Goldwing & a Guitar
I have had a Voyage Air guitar for over 12 years, forget the date. That guitar went around the world a few times, been on tiny pacific islands, and from the Antarctic to the Sahara desert.
Finally got swept away in Hurricane Ian ( I live on Fort Myers Beach), so I am replacing it.
William Veach
