Minicorda Suitcase-Size Electro Acoustic Nylon Guitar Released

The newly released Minicorda is a 19 inches travel (nylon) guitar that fits into a suitcase and sounds like a regular-size one. It's just one solid piece. It's always ready to be played. It's said to have a warm and clean sound.

How do they make it?

Minicorda founders created and patented a hollow-neck system that makes a 19-inch guitar resonate like a larger one, and also added great electronics (Fishman Preamp).

How is it built?

Mincorda's resonance body is made of high-quality polymers with great acoustic capabilities and mounted over a solid aluminum frame. It's manually finished and carefully calibrated by Diego Spina (co-founder and Luthier) and is 65% made with recycled materials.

Minicorda Specs:

• Exclusive Hollow Neck Design.
• Regular Tuning (EADGBE).
• Scale Length: 17.71in / 45cm.
• Fingerboard width at Nut: 2.04 in / 5,2 cm.
• Total Length: 19.7 in. / 50 cm.
• Total weight: 2.18 lbs. / 990 gr.
• Allen Precision Tuning mechanism.
• Electronics: Fishman Sonitone Mic and Pre-Amp.
• Mono Audio Output (Plug).
• Tone and volume controls.
• One-piece (nothing to assemble.
• Materials: ABS Polymer and aluminum.

How much does it cost?

Minicorda is available for the introductory price of $270, including free worldwide shipping, at minicorda.com

Assembling and customising your guitar takes 2 weeks. Shipping worldwide takes 10 days (US within a week).

Return policy is also very important for the company. You can take your money back and send the instrument to the factory up to 1 month after receiving it.

Read more atminicorda.com

 

It sounds flat and out of tune when fretted to my ears (which aren't great).

 

It needs to be used with an amp or with headphones. No sound of course can be made without amplification. This info is buried deeply in the description.

 

Since the Minicorda is out of stock for a while, an alternative might be the Artiphon Instrument 1. At just $29 more than the Minicorda, it's about the same size, but a whole lot more versatile. Full MIDI support with after-touch and MPE, it can be played like a guitar, keyboard, or drum pad. Hook it up with any guitar or synth VSTi (or iPhone/iPad), and you've got guitars and everything else. It's not really a precision MIDI guitar, but I'm not a precision player. I tweak it in the MIDI editor. But it's much more than that once you get a feel for it. And there are lots of MPE synths out there, like UVI Falcon, Omnisphere, Serum, Diva, Hive 2, Vital, and many more. Check out the videos.

https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1