Blackbird Guitars Nylon String Rider travel guitar provides a full scale length (25.6 inches) and delivers full sound through Blackbird's Asymmetric Acoustic Design with off-set sound-hole combined with a hollow neck with head mounted Stereo Sound Port, yet is small enough to fit in into many airlines overhead bins.
Features Include:
• Ultra-premium Gilbert tuners
• RMC Acoustic Gold Individual String Pickups
• Climate-proof Micarta fretboard and bridge
• Graphtech saddle and nut (2")
• High-Modulus carbon fiber top
• Custom gig bag
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Rider Carbon fiber nylon string travel guitar.
Taylor stopped by the Blackbird workshop to check out our guitars and he played this nice Bach piece.
Learn more at http://www.blackbirdguitar.com
Rider Carbon fiber nylon string travel guitar.
For NAMM 2009, Flamenco player David Maldonado plays the Blackbird Rider Nylon. The recording is off the amplifier through RMC pick-ups without a pre-amp.
Our Friend Uli from Germany stopped by the shop and played this wonderful piece. The carbon fiber Rider nylon string has a very strong, percussive voice that is particularly well suited for Flamenco. At 3 lbs, you get all the resonance Flamenco players are accustomed to without ever worrying about durability. Uli really liked the off-set sound hole for monitoring.
This song from Uli features his wonderful tapping technique. The hypnotic piece has a clearly eclectic compositional sound with one foot in fingerstyle and the other in electronica all with a real groove to it. The piece benefits from the carbon fiber Rider nylon strings' exceptional evenness across the fretboard which yields a transparent amplified voice.
| axis | score | review |
|---|---|---|
| Overall Rating | 9/10 | I recently became serious about guitar ... |
| Customer Support | 9/10 | Michael at MacNichol and Joe at Blackbird ... |
| Durability | 9/10 | OK, so a 10 rating's not allowed here, eh? ... |
| Finish | 8/10 | I like the finish. The guitar's interior, ... |
| Action, Playability | 8/10 | The action was a bit high -- toward the ... |
| Sound | 8/10 | Awesome. That bass separation is amazing, ... |
| Features | 7/10 | Portability & size / durability / ... |