SongBird Steel String Guitar Specifications

Wright Guitar Technology is proud to offer our SongBird and our DragonFly Steel String guitars for practicing acoustic and performing electric guitar players. 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. The SoloEtte line of guitars eliminate the use of thin woods to minimize cracking or warping due to extreme travel conditions. We have used our trademarked frame design on the SongBird and DragonFly with deep cutaway access to upper frets.

Back by Popular Demand-The DragonFly Electric SoloEtte

The DragonFly is Back! We are happy to announce the return of this fantastic electric guitar. We have redesigned the DragonFly to include our SongBird frame and straight-pull pegbox. The gears have been repositioned to allow comfortable right hand clearance and facilitate palm muting technique. This is a performance electric guitar in every way. With two EMG-HZ humbucking pickups as well as an onboard headphone amplifier, this guitar provides a strong performance on stage and for practice. The tone is clear and strong with an aggressive presence and a mellow voice. The volume and tone controls are placed on the top side edge of the guitar along with a toggle switch to select pickups. The disassembling frame allows professional players to perform all over the world with the DragonFly snug in it's soft carry on case. This gem is compact, light weight (only 4.5lbs), and ideal for international touring as well as gigging around town. We are offering this guitar with an Ebony or a Bloodwood fingerboard.

The SongBird Acoustic 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. 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. Volume and tone controls and a true stereo headphones jack combined with an amp output makes the SongBird Acoustic a practice instrument as well as an ensemble performance guitar. This model is ideal 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 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.

SongBird Jazz Guitar

The SongBird Jazz has a neck position, EMG humbucking pickup for a sweet jazz tone. The Jazz has clear chord tones as well as sweet single notes. The elegant simplicity of the guitar includes jumbo frets and a full 1 3/4" nut width making it a performance instrument in every way. We have included an on-board mono headphone output for practice. The action comes set to proper, low string height and can be adjusted with the Schaller bridge.

The SongBird Cutaway Frame assembles to accommodate 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.

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.

Body and neck wood is Hard Rock Maple (Acer Saccharum) "Canadian Maple."

Fingerboard wood is either Bloodwood or Ebony on our DragonFly. We have chosen Hard Rock Maple fingerboards for our Acoustic and Jazz models.

The Frame is solid ¼ aluminum rod covered w/ black polyurethane tubing