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One thing I can’t lose is my Voyage Air Guitar

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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

A hit in Jamaica

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
courtesy of https://www.jazzguitar.be

Pittsburg to Guadalajara

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.

Doing what we enjoy…

We’ve been playing together since 1971. We dearly missed our guitar while we were away from home.

NO MORE THOUGH, thanks to Voyage Air guitars.

VAD-04 Unboxed (2016 Editor’s Note: A great first look at his guitar coming out of the box. Remember this guitar had just been shipped across the pond – what guitar wouldn’t need to be tuned up?)

“One Happy Guitar Player, with a Travel Guitar!”

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John ‘n’ Linda, with their Voyage Air live in Tobago

Here we are, in St. Lucia, overlooking the Atlantic, doing what we enjoy, playing music.

John & Linda in St. Lucia

~ John -n- Linda from the UK

 

On the road, on a plane

I have had my VAD04 since October 2017 and although it has had many trips by car, including to Liverpool and Sidmouth, it had never flown before and been put to the test for which its primary purpose was designed … until 31st August 2018.

As our visit to the Greek island of Crete approached the packing cases stage I wondered just how much I could safely get away with, literally, in the Voyage Air Guitar backpack. Ok, the VAD04 was the essential part and no compromise could be accepted on that. However, there are also the other ‘essential non-essentials’ that need to go, such as a capo, a tuner, a spare set of strings (Elixir lights), a small torch, a songbook or two, a lightweight guitar stand, a lightweight coffee machine – no scrub that last one as there are adequate coffee facilities at the destination hotel and various tavernas/kafenion in the area.

The other factor when travelling is not just the items mentioned above but what the airline will tolerate as ‘hand’ or ‘carry on’ luggage. Discretion played the better part of my decision making and only the capo, tuner, songbooks and torch made the cut. I did wonder whether the spare set of strings might be deemed to be usable as offensive weapons. Maybe someone can enlighten me on that issue. The other items were consigned to the ‘checked’ luggage and out went clothes from that case to accommodate the rest of the ‘non-essentials’.

Boarding the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, I admit to some concern as to whether the VAD backpack was too big having seen some of the small size items being carried by other passengers. All felt much better when I spotted some fellow travellers taking on board what appeared to be the entire contents of mini gymnasiums. Onboard I juggled the VAD backpack in to the overhead locker. Hint: it goes in much better with the fretboard bulge to the bottom, which, with the locker closed then becomes vertically parallel to the cabin. You’ll just have to imagine that.

That was the first stage of the mission accomplished, without any comments from the airline staff at check-in or onboard.

Arrival on Crete and transfer to the hotel went smoothly for the VAD04, where I unpacked – the guitar – unfolded, placed on the lightweight guitar stand, packed in my suitcase, and left it to settle in for its holiday. We arrived late Friday afternoon and had a rehearsal session on Saturday at 12 noon (High Noon?) with my fellow conspirator, Bob, who lives on Crete. That was for the evening entertaining/performing session later. Unfolding the VAD04 brought an almost stunned silence – such a thing was just not possible and still be playable. Well, it is and it was. Setting the guitar up was done quite quickly including retuning as necessary and ready to go after a short coffee break. The temperature was around 35C, having left the UK at around 24C. How would the VAD04 react – superbly, of course. The rehearsal went well, particularly with Bob on his new Epiphone acoustic/electric (all unplugged, of course).

Brad CarterThe evening session was scheduled for around 22:00 and planned for around 15 songs, after a very convivial session – eating and drinking that is at a local taverna – we returned to our hosts wonderful villa on Crete and performed our set list … then some more, for around 2 hours or more. VAD04 was perfect, me, not too bad for an old guy with arthritic wrists and fingers.

Two further ad hoc sessions were had during my Cretan stay, one lasting well over two hours, when all that had been agreed was a set of three songs. The VAD04 got astonished and admiring glances, with one Norwegian guy taking an interest to the point of photographing the instruction booklet – kept opportunistically in the backpack.

Whether or not my playing was any good seemed largely overlooked with the versatility of being able to use a full-size dreadnought guitar, with a quality sound and look was more than enough to carry the day … erm … nights, really.

The homeward bound flight was just as uneventful for the VAD04 as the outward bound with it safely stowed in the overhead locker and a safe unblemished return to the UK. As for me, that’s a different issue as still recovering from a very enjoyable holiday.

The VAD04 passed its test with flying colours and I now look forward to many more years of adventures with it, my health and arthritis permitting.

Picture: Just tuning up the guitar ready to accompany Debbie (from the Netherlands)

Brad

Read the full discussion here.

Well traveled and going for #2

I’m a traveler. I’ve been around the world a few times now over a few years and I’ve stopped back in the states for a bit to visit and work. I already have one of your guitars, a VAMD-02, and have taken it with me to over 50 countries!

I love that guitar. As I go I put stickers on her from the different places I’ve been. I call them her “tattoos”. Needless to say, she’s all covered now, so I’d like to retire her and pick up a new guitar. I’m now looking at the VAOM-04BK for my next guitar.

Thanks!
Perry T

*Editor’s note: We’re glad to say that later this day he purchased his VAOM-04BK and we look forward to seeing more travel stories stickers! Thanks PT!