travel guitars
If you travel and can’t bring your guitar with, there are a few “travel guitar’ solutions. Typically these shorter-scale guitars have a neck without a headstock, the tuners being built into the butt of the guitar. The guitars are meant to be played through headphones and although they may be suitable for performance, I suspect they are used mostly for just what the name implies, a substitute instrument you can use to practice while away from home.
The tradeoff for travel guitars portability is tonality. The tone of the guitar comes entirely from the pickups so in the case of nylon-stringed guitars specifically (what I would be interested in) that pickup is a ‘piezo’ style. Piezo-electric pickups convert the physical movement of the guitar top into an electrical signal, and they can sound thin and ’tinny’. Some classical/electric guitars have both an internal microphone and a pixel-electric pickup; using onboard controls, the player is able to blend the sound between the two sources (plus EQ) for a more ’natural’ amplified sound. “EQ”, btw just short for ‘equalization’. You would use EQ controls to balance the sound of your guitar in the way that sounds best to you.
I’ve always thought the Hush guitar was quite interesting looking, with its sort of ‘implied’ body.