FEATURE VOYAGE-AIR
Bending the rules T
he guitar’s popularity in the USA might have been spread because it was an easy instrument to
pack-up and move in the age of the covered wagon, but succeeding generations have found guitars a bit less convenient to carry with them. Air travel is notorious, and how do you manage a guitar if you ride a motorcycle or a bike? They’re not even that easy to carry on the tube.
26 February 2012
All that changes in the UK from this month when Music Force – after a 12 month wait – will be unleashing the Voyage-Air acoustic range in this country and throughout Europe. And what's even more amazing about this folding – yes, folding – guitar, is that it's an acoustic of seriously high quality, according to US reviewers, and boasts a growing band of big name endorsees, including no lesser mortal than Brad Paisley.
A guitar that folds in half so you can travel with it? Gimmicky, unworkable nonsense, right? Not according to Jon Gold of Music Force, who has taken on the Voyage-Air range, which does exactly that and stays in tune too. Not convinced? Let Gary Cooper persuade you…
Music Force’s Jon Gold sounds like a man who has won the lottery, having secured Voyage-Air distribution for Europe. “I've been around a long while and seen some fantastic instruments, but I've never seen anything like this. It's one of the finest bits of technology I've seen in any medium,” he says. Voyage-Air was the brainchild of US engineer Jeff Cohen, whose son needed a guitar to take away with him when he
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