Johnny Marr Guitar Interactive Magazine Issue 7. This month we catch up with The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Johnny Marr Interview and style guitar lessons. Johnny Marr Jaguar fender. Wishbone Ash frontman and guitarist Andy Powell, full gear run down interview and live footage of there gig at The Stables Milton keynes. We have guitar lessons on Wishbones Ash style. This months reviews feature reviews on Black Star HT delay pedal, Blackstar modulation pedal, blackstar reverb pedal, review on TC eletronic pedals, free guitar lessons from Maneli Jamal, guitar lessons from Andy James, guitar lessons from Giorgio Serci, guitar lessons from Tom Quayle, guitar lessons from Michael Casswell, Stuart Bull Guitar lessons, Rick Graham guitar lessons.
THE QUIET ROOM_GUITAR REVIEW
An acoustic guitar that folds-up into a rucksack? And it doesn’t sound like a shoe
box strung with rubber bands? We were sceptical about the Voyage-Air - so we
asked Tim Slater to investigate. He came back looking slightly unhinged....
The acoustic guitar isn’t always the easiest
musical instrument to take on the road.
Innately fragile yet often impractically
unwieldy once packed securely into a decent
guitar case, the acoustic guitar presents a
major issue for the travelling guitarist - be
it the holidaying hobbiest who simply can’t
bear to part with their guitar, or the touring
professional.
Purpose-built travel guitars offer a fairly
decent solution but the trade-off for their
diminutive size is that sound-wise travel
guitars don’t really do much to inspire; fine
for a quick plonk around in the back of the
tour bus, maybe, but that’s about as far as it
goes.
So what can the travelling guitarist do to
happily accommodate a full size acoustic
guitar on the road, in the air or at sea?
Airport baggage handlers in particular
must surely undergo some kind of training
course where they learn to single out
delicate musical instruments for particularly
harsh treatment: I have watched in open
mouthed dismay as my guitar was hurled
onto a luggage trolley like a sack of potatoes,
catapulted from baggage carousels like some
unwilling six-string missile launcher or else
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survived the journey unscathed only to be
dumped forlornly in some obscure corner of
an airport arrivals lounge. Buying a seat for
your guitar on the airplane is an expensive
solution but it seems that unless you want
to risk inviting the orangutans employed as
airport baggage handlers to test the limits of
your precious cargo’s ‘Fragile’ label, you have
little choice.
Or do you?
Californian based luthier Harvey Leach has
come up with an ingenious solution in the
shape of the Voyage-Air folding guitar. Leach
has some serious pedigree, he has worked
as a freelance consultant for Martin Guitars
and his inlay work in particular has attracted
commissions from the likes of Paul Reed
Smith, Collings and D’Angelico; you get the
idea.
Originally approached to design a travel
guitar for medical engineer Jeff Cohen, who
wanted a full-sized acoustic guitar that could
be taken on board an airplane, Leach started
out experimenting with detachable guitar
necks before he hit on the novel idea of using
a hinged neck that allowed the guitar to fold
away during transport but would simply
unfold when it was time to play.
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