Officially launched at the show, the Centerfold guitar from the DeVillain Guitar Company, based in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, solves a transport problem that every guitarist has experienced - the guitar can be folded away to make a more compact package for transport and you don’t even have to take the strings off when you fold the neck as they are rolled up by the guitar. Leif Rehnström, Managing Director of DeVillain told us, “The magical thing is that the guitar can be played directly after it’s been unfolded and it’s just as tuned as when it was folded away.�
Behind the development of the folding guitar, patent applied for in Europe, Japan and USA, is SAS airline pilot Fredrik Johansson. He is a devoted guitarist but couldn’t take his instrument with him on flights around the world. During the last ten years, Fredrik has been working on the development of a folding guitar that could easily be taken on a plane. Leif Rehnström, who has sworn over these transport difficulties many times after several years as a professional musician, with power pop group The Drowners among others, had this to say, �The resulting product not only solves the problem he was experiencing but also that of all the other guitarists who are fed up carrying their cumbersome guitar cases on buses, subways, bikes…Other guitarists can’t believe it when I tell them. I didn’t believe it either before Fredrik showed me his prototype.�
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