For those of you whose vacation dreams include channeling your best Jimmy Buffett and strumming your guitar at a distant beach, but you just can’t manage the logistics, check out the Voyage Air Guitar. The company won the reality “Shark Tank” TV show with its concept of a hinged, folding, full-size guitar that packs into a backpack that can fit into an airplane’s overhead compartment. I took mine on a crowded flight and did manage to get it into the space. When I unfolded the guitar in my hotel room, strings still attached, it actually played in tune, and I was able to practice until the wee hours (to the delight of my neighbors, I am sure). Not a novelty item, the guitars play as well as any fixed model, with their high-end styles being taken on tour by Mumford Sons and Paul McCartney’s band.
What we liked: Quality guitar, single hinge makes it easy to fold/reassemble, and the form-fitted backpack is ingenious.
Not so much: If you add much more than the guitar to the bag, it probably won’t fit in an overhead compartment.
Vitals: Voyage-Air Guitars, from $500, www.voyageairguitar.com.
- Bill Fink, travel@sfchronicle.com
Voyage-Air Guitar folds up for travel
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