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Joined:
January 2006
Posts: 5881
Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I need another amp like a hole in the head, but here’s what happened . . .
I’m in GC a month ago looking for a specific type of cable when I pass by a salesperson carrying out a small Fender amp with a price tag of $29. As soon as he sets it down and turns around, I check it out. It’s a used Frontman 15R (the reverb model) that looks brand spanking new. So I’m thinking, what a great amp for traveling. It’s light and would fit inside just about any size suitcase with plenty of room for everything else. At $29, I could eat spaghetti one night instead of steak and call it even. At the counter, they tell me the amp was just brought in by some young kid who sold it outright to the store, but there was a hold on it for 30 days to allow for some sort of stolen property check. I guess GC is in the pawn shop business these days. No matter, I buy it on layaway and it goes in GC’s back room out of view. Perfect. 30 days pass, the police never show up, so I pick it up. What a neat little amp. Perfect in a hotel room during business travel. Then I think, what an idiot. I don’t even have a small travel guitar! | |
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Joined:
September 2004
Posts: 1180
Location: Vermont USA | And so the search begins for a small travel guitar :) Any suggestions will be helpful
Thanks Pauly | |
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Joined:
May 2003
Posts: 4389
Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I recommend one of these four:
Olympia Papoose OSP-1 (I love it, and this is the one I own. It adds a slightly different sound to my arsonal; being short scale it has a whiff of a mando in its sound. In its case, it's about the size of a viola. It has an internal pre-amp and I play it thru a little 1.5 watt computer speaker.)
The rest are even more compact and may be what you're looking for if size is the primary criteria:
Chiquita (anothter good choice)
Steinberger broom (love these babies)
Traveler Guitar (Some people here have one and like them, never played one though)
Professor you gotta get one.
PS I saw that eastman is making an electric mandolin with a bolt on truss rod adjustable neck. I think it would be killer. | |
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Joined:
March 2005
Posts: 12761
Location: Boise, Idaho | I bought that amp a few years ago for my daughter. Nice little practice amp. While shopping for the amp for her I spotted an Ovation, did a little internet research and, many GAS attacks later, here I am. | |
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Like I need another amp