GEAR REVIEW
BREEDLOVE PURSUIT EXOTIC COMPANION CE GUITAR | Bruce Adolph
KEY FEATURES
A travel guitar gives you mainly a reasonable options and price points, we got our hands on
fretboard to play on so hopefully you don’t lose the Pursuit Exotic Companion. A 23.5” scale
• Smaller Body Size any of your playing skills while away from home. length instrument with a solid Myrtlewood
• Standard E-E Tuning In that trade off you give up a lot of sound top, laminated Myrtlewood back and sides. It
quality, playability and even the looks of a guitar comes with a compensated saddle, African
are sometimes compromised. ebony fretboard and bridge (not only for
• L.R. Baggs EAS Pick-up system
• Shallow Cutaway
Travel guitars are made for travel. Usually they
trade off several key features in exchange for
the convenience of being able to take the
instrument easily on a trip with you… vacation
or business. They fit in the trunk of your car just
as easy as they fit in the overhead bin on an
airplane. They allow you to play, practice and
write music while away from your “regular full-
size guitar”.
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appearance sake) but ebony is the preferred
Well, the folks at Breedlove must have sat tonewood for performance guitars. Add to this
down and said to themselves, “What if we the iconic Breedlove shaped headstock, the
flip the script and make a guitar that has all of deep cutaway along with the high gloss finish
the higher end components that you normally on Mrytlewood (which has beautiful figured
notice are missing in your travel guitar? What if grain) and you have one striking acoustic guitar.
it was more than a travel guitar? What if it was a
companion to you wherever you go, something How can you use this Companion model
really nice that you want to take with you? besides as an actual travel guitar? Well, first of
all, smaller guitar bodies are popular these days.
Thus, the Companion was born. While this new Stage guitars are getting smaller too. Adults of
body shape comes in a variety of tonewood smaller stature, youth groups and children’s
October 2019
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