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Originally Posted by steve s
Can someone define a folk guitar for me? From the pictures I've seen, they seem to have a body intermediate between a dreadnought and parlor or classic, and often look to have a skinny neck. Is that it? I grew up on folk music (Joan Baez, etc.) but never gave much thought to special guitar needs. Thinking about potential travel guitars got me wondering.
Thanks!
Steve
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Steve I'm an old folkie from the 60s and really pretty much any acoustic guitar played at that time was considered a folk guitar. Martin made a 00-18G that was a gut/nylon string guitar they called folk, Joan Baez played a Martin 0-45, Richie Havens played a big Guild, Judy Collins a Martin D-28, Buffy Sainte-Marie played Ovations, Martins, Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary played a dred (Martin I think), Paul played a nylon stringed guitar...so as you can tell it was all over the place, still is if you look at what folks are playing now.
In terms of a travel guitar, I highly recomment the Voyage Air, I've had a Little Martin and Washburn Traveler but they just didn't work for me. I love my Voyage Air, as a matter of fact I just got back from playing an open mike with it, checking out the new pickup I had put in before my next trip.
Hope this helps, joan