Yamaha Mini Travel Guitar - 1970’s Super Vibey Travel Guitar! - Great Tiny Guitar! -

A good travel guitar can be hard to find! Soul, inspiration, and portability can be things that have a hard time being present all at once. This one has all the feel and sound of a beautiful vintage instrument, and it fits effortlessly in an overhead bin. Message me for a video!

Sometimes a travel guitar can forget that it not only needs to be small but also a good guitar. They can be like the Vanilla Crisp Powerbar, that while convenient and can fit in your pocket, is an indigestible briquette of absolute trash. A travel guitar can be like those vermin-proof bins of emergency food rations that doomsday preppers bury in the far corners of their properties. Yes, that stuff is literally food, but no, it is not something you would want to eat if the sky weren’t raining fire. They’re not burying your favorite açaí bowl or vegan blue corn enchilada combo, they’re burying bags of nourishment powder made from rejected bison tallow. It’s only function is to keep you barely alive enough to defend yourself from escaped zoo carnivores and give you a sliver of a chance to repopulate the earth. Travel guitars are the same way, some of them play and sound with all the charm and delicacy of a nice plate of rehydrated hoof-marrow. Mmmm…hoof-marrow. This guitar is the doomsday prepper food that the 1% eat in their converted missile silo turned survivalist bunker. This is what Oprah is going to eat when she wakes up from hyper sleep on her way to the next habitable planet. It’s way more than the hoof-marrow that will give your body the bare means to live another day in a godforsaken hellscape, it’s actually something you would eat under relatively normal circumstances. That’s what a good travel guitar is, a guitar that you would play even if you weren’t traveling, or a paranoid survivalist’s food ration that you would eat for dinner on a beautiful peacetime night.

I think you get what I’m getting at. This is not just a travel guitar, it’s an awesome instrument that can be used for traveling. My main nylon string that I’ve had for years is a Yamaha from the same era, and this one feels and plays with all the spirit and soul that my other one has, just on a smaller scale and package. Overall it’s in really beautiful condition, little bit of natural play wear here and there but nothing that doesn’t look the part. I love playing guitar and writing while I’m traveling, and an actually good travel guitar with real vibe is kind of a must for that experience. Traveling can be when you write your best stuff, if you’re in a tent in the desert or a hotel room in a new city it’s cool to have a guitar with actual vibe. That’s just my opinion but trust me I’m speaking from experience.

As an instrument, this thing rules. Action is low and bouncy, tone is nice and vibrant, it feels really comfortable to play, I think all the boxes are totally checked. It stays in tune, it looks great, and it’s just awesome all the way around. Intonation on the smaller scales like this can be a little questionable sometimes, and this one is actually really good. It’s way more than acceptable when you’re balancing out the tone/vibe/convenience ratios of the travel guitar. There's a massive mountain of saddle left, this thing is good to go long into the future. It’s a great instrument that’s also great to travel with, awesome guitar!