What is the difference between the Blackbird RIder and other small guitars?
The short answer is tone, and playability. The Blackbird has a rich and satisfying acoustic tone with a full frequency range and full-size guitar volume. Other small guitars do not. Theirs are miniaturized interpretation of a full-size for easy travel with the tone diminished accordingly. They also have shorter scale lengths (22.5″ versus ours of 24.5″) which further diminishes playability and tone. Ours is the reinvention the guitar: a small body instrument for easy travel without compromise. Here is the long list of how we get a big sound from a small body (and they do not): * Innovative, synergistic and patented design features to maximize resonance including: hollow neck and hollow head (kills sound deadening neck/lowers weight/increases resonance chamber), body extension with back cutaway for access to higher frets, curve-less design (no sound robbing double-O where its unnecessary with a narrower guitar), asymmetrical sound hole (larger soundboard resonance area), secondary sound
