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Question:What is the difference between a travel guitar and a 3/4 sized guitar?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: What is the difference between a travel guitar and a 3/4 sized guitar?

Travel guitars, like the Martin Backpacker, or the Baby Taylor, have smaller bodies but full-size (width) necks and fingerboards. They're meant as easy-to-carry practice instruments for adults.

3/4 size guitars are proportionately scaled down guitars including smaller, shorter scale, narrower necks and fingerboards. They're meant for children or small adults whose hands are too small to play full size instruments.

A 3/4 guitar actually still pretty much looks like a guitar but is smaller whereas a travel guitar usually has a cut down body (the Martin Backpacker for instance) - a lot of the time also with travel guitars you can plug in headphones to the guitar directly. The electric ones that is.

I'll add that, in terms of sound, the manufacture of the guitar is what's important, not whether it's a backpacker, 3/4, or full sized (or dreadnaught). All things being equal, I'd prefer an Ovation acoustic-electric, but my lifestyle suggested a few years ago that I should be more portable--and so now I play a Washburn Rover with a Fishman under-bridge pickup. The tone is only a little less rich than my old Ovation, but it's quite comparable with other less-expensive acoustics that I once played.