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Martin & Co Steel String Backpacker Guitar
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Martin & Co Steel String Backpacker Guitar
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Published on 03/13/04 at 18:12
A "guitar" to stretch the fingers
No effect, no microphones, just a stick with strings on it. No adjustment handle (string "extralight" mandatory, otherwise hopelessly twisted wood (hopeless because there is no adjustment. You follow, or not?)
Mahogany neck, and the "sides" and "back". "Table" spruce. Closed mechanical (oil bath?)

UTILIZATION

Handle very short and very thick, completely different from a regular round Martin. It is very unpleasant, it feels like a log.
Access to acute easy, normal, there is almost no cash.
The interface is horrible, but the strap, it has no idea how to keep this machine. Placed on the thigh, it is much too low to play. In addition, the slightest movement of the left hand moves the position of the guitar because the body has no inertia, views its small size. All the weight is in the handle, the imbalance hello!

You do not get easily "good sound" because it does not get a good sound at all! (See more ...)

SOUNDS

The sound is a "banjo hungry." Not too surprising, given that there is not a sounding board on a tiny table.
I had hoped for a miracle, like "a narrow but balanced." Nope, it's atrocious. it's plonck plonck, we play in picking or agreements.

I put as a means for something. ;-)

OVERALL OPINION

I am looking for a small guitar take with me when I travel by plane for the holidays.
When I saw that Martin had a backpacker in its catalog, I thought he was trying to get an opinion, and that perhaps it would be a good idea of ​​genius: a scraper for the holidays, that one can safely take into the cabin in airplanes.

Yuck yuck yuck yuck! How disappointed I am! I had hoped it would be so constructed to have a small but good sound anyway. After all, Martin is not the last factor of guitars, they may be a silver bullet.
Nothing to do, the laws of the violin are impitooyaaaableuuuu.

For a guitar, it is wood, you need a table, you need a crate. If we remove part of all this, we remove almost everything that makes the sound of a guitar. Unstoppable. But how naive I am.

I tried in the store, I have not bought.
A book so for those who want to train by agreeing without a headphone, and not looking on sound quality.
In addition, have to adapt to the special comfort of the machine is not won. But if there is that it does not reject, they will take. This program is very special reason my bill.

Here, suddenly, I even asked the price. Missing is it is expensive ....