Here at Guitarist we’re used to instruments arriving at our door in guitar-shaped cases. And so when Furch’s Little Jane turned up in something that closely resembled a hiker’s backpack it became the talking point of the afternoon. A guitar that folds down into three separate parts? It sounded a little like a dark ‘some assembly required’ nightmare. As it happens, we were in for a pleasant surprise.
Travel guitars are far from being a new concept. Possibly the first commercially successful model was Martin’s Backpacker, which appeared on the radar in the early 1990s and enjoyed a trip to space on NASA’s Space Shuttle in 1994, as well as subsequently journeying up Mount Everest – and you can’t get any more well travelled than that.
