Music Alley MA-51 Classical Kids Guitar - Pink, Half Size

Decent little acoustic guitar with lovely sound, good for the price.

Good quality

We purchased this as our 7yo had expressed an interest in learning guitar; knowing how she can be a little clumsy we were hesitant at spending lots for something she would probably fall on and smash! When it arrived, for £20 I was expecting to have to assemble and string, to my amazement this came fully strung (but understandably out of tune) and suitable paper slipped under the strings to protect the fretboard. As you would expect the finish is in part cheap, but tidy and I would say good value for money. This did take a while to tune and for the strings (especially the three thin nylon ones) to fully stretch before they would hold a note. Seriously; we gave this to our daughter for Christmas and with daily use this took a good 3 weeks before you could play for half an hour with good note retention. You could re-string with steel to ease this but beware of tiny fingers and the harshness of steel strings on soft fingertips; personally I would persevere with the nylon and the dullness of note until they have got a bit more experience. Size wise, our daughter is 7, but is tall for her age; this is marginally too big for her. She can reach a 'C' chord, but only just. This is a grower for her and would probably best suit and 'average' 9yo onwards. As an adult demonstarating, it is playable, but very tight!!! In summary; it's £20 so don't be expecting Fender or Larrivee sound quality, be prepared to spend time letting the strings stretch out before they hold a note but for what you pay and what it is designed for it does the job.

Brought this because my 5 year daughter was pestering me to have a go on my guitar (which was a present from a relative, therefore too sentimental to be broken). I didn't want to buy a tiny plastic guitar which can't be tuned but at the same time wanted something good enough that if my children did want to take up guitar it was there for a potential chord learning. The quality of the guitar seems good to me for the price, obviously not professional standards, I think one of the low strings twangs a bit, doesn't bother me. It's a nice solid wood, fully varnished, strings have enough tension to be tuned properly and the fret-board/neck is about the right size for a 5 year old's fingers in my opinion. I saw a review on here whereby the bridge completely unstuck after it had been "professionally tuned". We didn't have any problems, had it over two months now. I tuned it myself, and just very gently pulled on the nylon strings upward when tuning it for the first time to give them a little bit of flexibility (don't do this on steel string guitars by the way). It naturally de-tuned itself in the first couple of days, this is normal for new strings, after that it's been fine. I just re-iterate to my 5 and 3 year olds to just respect the guitar, i.e. not leave it on the floor, put it in the corner when you're not using it etc. etc., normal with children, and a nice learning experience on how to treat instruments. I've found myself picking it up and have a few practice runs myself as it's in the living room to hand! Cheap price and a reasonable quality considering the price. Design is generic enough to out live a child's fast changing trends and tastes, so should do until they leave primary school and then until they want to get serious with guitar playing. Excellent and would recommend.

Excellent buy,not too big lightweight,very happy customer also great price

Bought this for my little 5 year old grandson’s birthday. It arrived promptly, was well packaged with a spare set of nylon strings, so far so good. When I tuned it up and tried to play it, found it impossible. The strings at the first fret were so high it was unplayable. I examined the Nut and found it was misaligned to the fret board and was also higher at one side than the other. Rather than returning it I decided to fix it myself. I removed the Nut, cut a more level channel in the headstock, shaved the nut by a millimetre or two and refitted. Now much better, strings are where they should be and it is lovely to play. If there is a quality control department at the factory they should be sacked and replaced, But for £20 it is good value and hopefully I was just unlucky with this example.

Perfect for beginner use. Built well and great to use. Nice standard colour. Used loads and still good for level of use.

Difficult to tune but once it’s tuned just need retuned regularly as it won’t hold the tuning for long otherwise it’s decent to lear from

Bellissima,taglia piccola per iniziante

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Completely useless

Très belle guitare 🎸 complet Corde de rechange Son étui il y a tout.

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