SongBird Steel String Guitar Specifications

Wright Guitar Technology is proud to introduce our new SongBird Steel String guitar. Wright Guitar was a guitar repair and custom shop for 25 years before inventing the SoloEtte. When luthier Rossco Wright designed his idea of a good guitar he wanted something that he would not have to repair. This model is for the practicing flattop, steel string acoustic guitar player who needs the authenticity of a real guitar which can stand the rugged abuse of an active lifestyle. With a 1 ¾” nut width, 22 frets, and a full 25 ½” scale length, our SongBird is a practical solution for the traveling and performing musician.

The SongBird is a light-weight, disassembling steel string guitar that comes with a small, padded carrying case which is accepted by airlines as a carry-on. The neck has a 16” radius fingerboard that continues onto the body. The SongBird uses a solid piece of Hard Rock Maple with a Purple Heart truss rod stripe on the back of the neck. We have provided easy access to the truss rod for action adjustments. Also, we have reinvented our steel string design with the addition of a straight-pull pegbox which improves tuning and string alignment. The SoloEtte line of guitars eliminate the use of thin woods and glue joints to minimize cracking or warping due to extreme travel conditions. We have used our trademarked frame design on the SongBird with double-cutaway access to upper frets. Volume and tone controls and a true stereo headphones jack on top combined with an amp output on the bottom edge makes the SongBird a practice instrument as well as an ensemble performance guitar.

The neck is a standard steel string guitar neck. The action comes set to the proper string height, and can be adjusted. We provide easy access to the truss rod from inside the pegbox. The assembled double cutaway frame accommodates a comfortable guitar shape in your lap and balances beautifully. The edge outline of the frame allows you to rest the weight of your arm on it so your fingertips will hover over the strings right where you would expect. Because the gears are at the other end, this full sized guitar is 5 inches shorter. This reorientation of the gears creates balance and offers superior tuning access, as described below.

The Price: $1200.00 plus shipping

Tuning: Tuning from this end is probably the way it should have been all along, but was not available to standard stringed instruments when tone propagation from thin woods would be hampered by heavy tuning mechanisms. Due to the design of the SoloEtte Guitar, the area behind the bridge is available for tuners. A pegbox fits perfectly here, does not need to tilt back, and can be made stronger and thicker because the strings are spread wider. Our steel string utilizes a straight-pull pegbox which improves tuning and string alignment. It is so nice to hold one string at the 5th fret and keep holding it while you tune the other string until it is perfect. Or tune while holding a chord and keep holding it with your left hand while you tune it perfectly with your right hand.

The Pickup is of our own design. It consists of a hollow tube with electronics and baffles inside. This tube forms the saddle. The strings vibrate the air inside the tube which gives it a rounder sweeter sound than piezo style pickups. And it is stereo for the headphone usage and can go out to a guitar amp or sound system in mono or stereo. You can plug your computer speakers into the guitar. Just unplug them from the back of the sound card and plug them directly into the guitar with the use of the jack adapter provided. This will allow low level, personal amplification that will bring the guitar up enough to play with another acoustic guitar.

Body wood is Hard Rock Maple (Acer Saccharum) "Canadian Maple" with a Purple Heart truss rod stripe up the back of the neck.

The Electronics use a 9 volt battery with an easy access battery door. There are two output jacks as well as volume and tone controls. The stereo headphones jack is located on top with the controls while the mono, send-to-amp output jack is on the bottom edge.

Currently our build time to receive a SongBird is 60-90 days. Thank you for your patience, and we guarantee this guitar is well worth the wait.