Travel Guitar Sound Comparison - w/pick - Little Martin vs Baby Taylor vs Cordoba Requinto

Описание: Seattle guitarist Mark Wand puts three popular travel guitars to the test:
🎸 Little Martin
🎸 Baby Taylor
🎸 Cordoba Requinto – a nylon-string classical guitar retrofitted with steel strings and the TurboTail

All guitars are played with a pick, offering a consistent and focused sound comparison.

What sets the Cordoba Requinto apart? The TurboTail.
This innovative device transfers the high tension of steel strings from the soundboard to the structural tail block, freeing the soundboard to resonate more fully. The result is increased volume, tone clarity, and dynamic response—even from a small classical guitar not originally built for steel strings.

💡 Without the TurboTail, this kind of test wouldn't be possible—steel strings would damage the Requinto’s lightly braced soundboard. But with tension rerouted, the guitar can finally do what it was meant to: amplify sound, not carry structural stress.

🎧 Grab your headphones and hear how each travel guitar stacks up.

The TurboTail is a simple, elegant device that diverts the tension of the guitar strings from the soundboard to the structural tail block of the guitar. All of the vibrations of the picked or strummed guitar strings are still transferred directly to the soundboard to produce sound, but the tension load is diverted to the tail block, leaving the delicate soundboard free to vibrate optimally.

The result is that the guitar soundboard can do what it was intended to: Amplify and temper the vibrations of the guitar strings without having to provide a structural anchor for the strings.

Guitar soundboards without the TurboTail act as structural members, like a floor, a wall, or a steel beam. This means that the soundboard’s most important job is to avoid collapsing due to the intense stress exerted by the taught guitar strings.

Guitar strings are like steel cables. The total tension of six steel guitar strings ranges between 140 and 190 pounds, depending upon the string gauge (12-string guitar tension can exceed 250 pounds.) That’s enough tension to lift a full-grown man off the ground. Imagine what your guitar could sound like if the soundboard didn’t have to do all this heavy lifting.

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