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Who We Are
Voyage-Air
Guitar specializes in building only the highest quality
acoustic and electric stringed instruments. We take pride in
our skilled production and service staff, well educated and
experienced sales people, and of course our product line: The
world’s first and only full-size acoustic and electric
instruments that fold-in-half! Our belief is that every
player should be able to take their guitar wherever their
music takes them. We also believe that traveling with a guitar
shouldn’t be an obstacle or require someone to down grade
their instrument just to be able to carry it with them. Our
guitars are performance level instruments designed with the
built-in versatility every player deserves. The Voyage-Air
Guitar is truly The Future of Guitar Travel™. |
Voyage-Air Guitar Co-Founders
Harvey Leach
(left) and Jeff Cohen |
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Everyone who works here at Voyage-Air Guitar indeed plays or loves the
guitar. We all have a fascination with the world of music and enjoy
all of the new relationships that we develop on a daily basis. Our
jobs bring us closer together with new artists, other guitar
instrument builders and an incredible array of industry colleagues.
Again, all of those relationships remind us why we love this business.
The
response to our guitars has been truly amazing! Our company started as
a cool idea in a small guitar shop in northern California and has
grown to a fully functioning manufacturing and distribution company.
With guitars selling all over the United States and international
sales spreading into Europe, Australia and Ireland we’re on the move
and definitely a company to watch in the coming months. We look
forward to working with all of you to help provide these great
instruments to as many players as possible.
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Since 1972, Harvey Leach has been making
guitars - building a total of 350 guitars, mostly flattops with
about 20 archtops and electrics. He has been living in California
since 1984, when he moved from his native Vermont.
Exactitude is one of Harvey's main
components in his stringed creations. He is also one of the best
inlay artists in the world, commissioned by The Martin Guitar
Company to adorn Custom Shop creations that sell for $100,000. He
has also done inlay work for Paul Reed Smith, Collings,
D'Angelico, Godin, Warrior, Warr, Jim Olson, Kevin Ryan, Lance
McCollum, and others. |
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With over 35 years experience in building
guitars, Harvey has designed and built guitars with hundreds of
combinations of woods, using his innovative design and bracing
variations. This gives him keen insight into the subtle design
details that contribute to the tone of a guitar. Because all Leach
guitars are hand-made from solid tonewoods, personally selected by
Harvey, they are also pricey investments - with prices starting at
$8,000.
Harvey used this experience to design two
different models for Voyage-Air Guitar: a comfortable and
fingerstyle-friendly OM-style guitar, and a traditional
Dreadnought-size guitar. The size and shape of these instruments
are familiar to any guitar player. But it’s Harvey’s advanced
designs, and the subtle combination of internal and structural
differences that sets Voyage-Air guitars apart.
Harvey affirms: “It was a challenge to adapt
my designs for instruments produced in quantity, but I’m more than
pleased with the results. At their retail price points, Voyage-Air
guitars are world-class instruments. The fact that they fold in
half for travel simply adds to that value.”
"I consider myself to be a traditional
luthier who is always searching for a better way to do things by
tapping the advances of today's technology. It's that thinking
that led me to the Voyage-Air design. I often hear, ‘Why didn't
someone think of this before?’ The reason is two-fold: First, the
more you 'know' about the details the less you might see of the
big picture. For example, if you are endlessly debating the merits
of dovetail vs. bolt-on neck design, then thinking about folding a
guitar is completely outside of your realm of thought. Secondly,
now is the time to meet the artist's need for portability. In this
portable age of laptop computers and cell phones, you should also
be able to take your guitar wherever you go. That’s what
Voyage-Air is all about." |
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