steelmooch
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Hello, all...what a cool little section of the forum!
I was wondering about your thoughts/experiences with "travel" acoustic instruments.
I'm a campfire strummer who sings and devises little family arrangements (a few key notes of a Buffett song on the little steel drum for our daughter, a beat on the djembe for our son, and an occasional, catchy back-beat on the claves for my wife, for example) a lot better than I actually play.
We enjoy it and have fun together, though.
My full-sized, go-to 12 string (and it's hard case) is just too large to take with us on the road, but I want something.
A 3/4 size guitar would help somewhat, but not a lot. A "backpacker" guitar like the Martin Backpacker or the Washburn Rover might be good, though a bit costly for us. A guitalele looks small and neat, but such a high pitched instrument (supposed to be similar to a regular guitar capo'd in the 5th fret) might compromise the songs we've taken the time to arrange and write out {obvious lack of music theory at play here...please excuse}.
Any advice? Things you've played or heard played around the campfire? Best recommendation for a mostly-strummer wanting to keep the family involved?
Thanks!
I was wondering about your thoughts/experiences with "travel" acoustic instruments.
I'm a campfire strummer who sings and devises little family arrangements (a few key notes of a Buffett song on the little steel drum for our daughter, a beat on the djembe for our son, and an occasional, catchy back-beat on the claves for my wife, for example) a lot better than I actually play.
We enjoy it and have fun together, though.
My full-sized, go-to 12 string (and it's hard case) is just too large to take with us on the road, but I want something.
A 3/4 size guitar would help somewhat, but not a lot. A "backpacker" guitar like the Martin Backpacker or the Washburn Rover might be good, though a bit costly for us. A guitalele looks small and neat, but such a high pitched instrument (supposed to be similar to a regular guitar capo'd in the 5th fret) might compromise the songs we've taken the time to arrange and write out {obvious lack of music theory at play here...please excuse}.
Any advice? Things you've played or heard played around the campfire? Best recommendation for a mostly-strummer wanting to keep the family involved?
Thanks!