We know you travel, and that’s why the Voyage-Air Guitar enables you to take your music with you, anywhere you go. This section features photos, stories, and videos from real owners. Play. Fold. Travel.
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February 14, 2012, Congress passed a Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill that includes new standards for storing instruments on planes. Pending issuance of final regulations, the amended law will let travelers carry any instrument or related gear onto an airplane that can be safely stored in the cabin, rather than risk it being damaged in the plane’s cargo hold or during baggage handling.
Included as an amendment to section 403 (“Musical Instruments”) of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (H.R. 658), the bill provides airport personnel with specific guidelines for carry-on instruments, including when musicians may purchase a separate seat for an oversized or fragile instrument, as well as weight and size limits for storing a larger instrument in a plane’s cargo area.
Also, guitar-sized or smaller instruments will be allowed on-board at no extra charge as long as they can be safely stowed in a baggage compartment or under the passenger’s seat. Instruments that are too large to be safely stored overhead or under a seat but don’t weigh more than 165 pounds may still be carried on-board. However, the owner will have to purchase a separate seat in order to accommodate the instrument. Owners who want to transport larger instruments as checked baggage will be allowed to do so, assuming the instrument weighs 165 pounds or less and the circumference of the instrument doesn’t exceed 150 inches.
Click here to download the actual amendment pages.
Need more? Click here to read about Ned Robbins, Airline Pilot and Voyage-Air Owner.
I’ve had other travel guitars, but none of them matched my Voyage Air for clarity of tone and volume. I have played it jamming with an Estonian of Russian extraction on the Greek island of Santorini, in sessions in Irish pubs, at a show at the Black Gate in Galway, and at a wedding in Hood River.
As I say in one of my songs,
Been all ’round this country
Been up north, been down south
Been out east, been out west
Been almost all about
Been all ’round this great wide land
Seen most there is to see
If you want to know where you should go
Hey, Buddy, just ask me.
‘Cause I’m the high road drifter
Been here and I been there
I’m the high road drifter
Been most everywhere
Sometimes I lose my way
But one thing I can’t lose
Is them lonesome, low down
Fed up highway blues.
Actually, one thing I can’t lose is my Voyage Air Guitar. You can bring it anywhere, pull it out, and with a couple of tuning tweaks, be ready to play. Playing in airports while waiting for a plane has become one of my favorite venues. Just pulling out the Voyage Air and setting it up gets everyone’s attention. And you have a captive audience that is begging to have something to distract them from the combination of boredom and anxiety that accompanies air travel. Waiting for one flight, the captain of the flight was passing by as I pulled out my guitar and stopped to listen for a short while. She ws also a guitar player and told me that when I boarded, I should tell the stewardess to make room for the guitar in the front locker. I told her thanks, but that’s not necessary. It fits in the overhead compartment. I suspect she now owns a Voyage Air of her own.
I have other guitars that I also love dearly, but when I’m traveling none of them matches the easy convenience of the Voyage Air, and the option of staging surprise concerts for an unsuspecting audience is a hoot!
Curtis
Just to let you know how much I enjoyed taking my Voyage Air mini-dread (no pun intended) with me to Jamaica. We spent 5 days running a medical clinic providing charity care, and 5 days of R and R at a beach house. Beautiful time.
Anyway, this is the best travel guitar ever. The top folds down and straightens up easily with no problem. I packed it up to move from one place to another while there, and when I got to the new house and unfolded it, it was still in tune. Very, very comfortable neck and body. Surprisingly nice action as well. Good sound that’s mellow and reasonably loud—nice for folk and even jazz.
I have literally no complaints with this guitar. My model is all-laminate, so no issues with humidity changes at all. And, the backpack case doubles as a carry on that will hold a laptop and a bunch of stuff. I even put all my socks in the sound hole for more storage—probably carried 25# of stuff in the case in addition to the guitar.
I’m not gonna mince words here. If you are serious about playing a real guitar when you travel, you should get this guitar. The base models are super nice and all-laminate, but you can spend more for solid tops and more exotic woods and appointments.
Doctor Jeff
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I recently acquired a VAOM-06 guitar and took it with me on a trip from Pittsburgh to Guadalajara, Mexico. It fit with room to spare in the overhead of both an Airbus A319 and an Embraer 170. First and foremost, it’s a good sounding well built guitar suited for finger style, that punches well above its weight class. I would have no interest in one if it did not sound good. I’d put it up against much more expensive guitars that do not fold. I’ve had issues traveling with full sized guitars before, but no one with TSA or the airline so much as blinked, they simply let me board and put it in the overhead.
From now on I will only travel with my Voyage Air!
Thanks,
Ed F.
Ed F.
