This guitar mixes the consolation of a parlor guitar with the output of a classic electrical guitar.

Rounding out the 2023 guitar overview season each right here and for Final-Guitar, we’ve the Maybach Little Wing. This completely comfortably, quirky guitar involves us from Germany, and is my first time with a Maybach guitar. Maybach has lengthy been one of many firms I’ve most wished to analyze, particularly after how a lot I used to be wowed by the Stanford Crossroad 30 thinline. Stanford serves as a form of extra inexpensive little sibling to Maybach within the i-music community of manufacturers.

Lo and behold, I lastly obtained my fingers on a Maybach and couldn’t be extra thrilled with the Little Wing.

At first look the Little Wing vastly resembles a parlor guitar of types, with its classical-style headstock, lack of cutouts across the neck, and shrunken physique. However loads of these quirky options work to the benefit of the guitar, as it’s fairly frankly one of the crucial snug taking part in experiences I’ve had.

The Little Wing includes a lengthy tenon Mahogany neck and Rosewood fretboard that be part of a sandwich physique of Okoume sides and again with a Maple high. A nitrocellulose end provides it an actual classic, traditional really feel. It’s a semi-hollow development, with a middle block to cut back suggestions, however massive areas hollowed round it to extend acoustic resonance and scale back weight.

Little Wing’s can are available a lot of totally different configurations, some with a cutout for increased fret entry, or with totally different pickup configurations, although mine is a twin P90 (my favourite) mannequin. I used to be stunned at how simple it was to entry the upper frets regardless of the shortage of a cutouts on both horn. However in actuality the small physique and horns of the guitar make it not as a lot of a difficulty as it might be on a big scale instrument.

Moreover, this neck is butter easy, and is constructed nearly like a classical guitar neck, getting wider throughout the fretboard as you progress down the neck, however having a thicker match into your palm. You get the perfect of each worlds, as cowboy chords and arpeggios on open strings are a breeze, with out the Little Wing ever feeling like a toy.

How Does It Sound?

I took the Little Wing and ran it by my stereo amp sim rig (UA Dream and Ruby) with a smattering of my favourite pedals. You’ll discover EHX Reminiscence Man Deluxe Nano sounds, Shotmaker Heroine Deluxe sounds, and Spirit In The Sky Fuzz/Tremolo as properly.

The P90s sound completely incredible to me and it actually underscores simply how a lot enjoyable this guitar is to play. Maybach’s Little Wing could not at all times be essentially the most technical or visually spectacular guitar on my rack, however I can already inform it’s going to be the one I decide up most frequently. The sound is easy and buttery, like an previous Gibson guitar that none of us can afford. And the light-weight physique suits comfortably and is fairly freaking inviting. The higher fret entry could have thrown me for a loop at first, nevertheless it actually wasn’t that tough and I used to be having no bother noodling away excessive of chords.

It jogs my memory of the Concord Juno I reviewed years in the past, which was additionally a smaller physique guitar that was simply good for songwriting. Sitting round the home, or at your desk to file, this Little Wing guitar is only a good instrument for piecing collectively a track or melody.

And that’s actually the perfect toast I may give to this glorious little guitar. I’ve little doubt it’s additionally nice on stage and dwell, nevertheless it simply feels just like the sort of guitar you’re gonna play on a regular basis after work. It’s not a Les Paul Junior for me to loudly bash round with on stage, and it’s not a fragile boutique guitar for layering verb-drenched strains on indie rock tracks. However that’s not a knock in any respect, because the guitars I write songs on get performed much more than the flowery, shiny guitars that could be extra spectacular to my Instagram followers.

The Maybach Little Wing is a incredible instrument, and I believe you’ll be seeing much more of it in 2024!