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Travel guitars have become a pretty big thing of late (no pun intended). In their basic form, they’re a smaller version of more familiar guitars and, ironically, take us full circle back to an earlier form of the instrument (before dreadnoughts and 000s) when “small” was the norm.

Compared to those of the 19th century, however, the modern small guitar (which includes those designed with portability in mind) has benefitted from an extra 150 years of development. Travel guitars were a curiosity in the ‘80s, and were usually little more than an oversized uke

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