Music Alley Classical Junior Acoustic Guitar For Kids

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

Lovely guitar, strong and sturdy

Quality is quite good. Think it’s a little expensive for what it is

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.

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

Nice guitar but this is happening only after a few uses.

Good small guitar

Don't waste your money. The pink guitar is shown in the picture and has a really high action (distance from strings to the fretboard) which makes it hard for a learner to play. The other guitar shown is one I replaced it with from a local music store and you can see the distance is far less. The guitar more importantly does not stay in tune; I tugged the strings and retuned it lots of times, but the nylon strings slip out of tune really quickly all the time, making it unplayable. I have played guitar for 36 years, so I should really have known better, as you get what you pay for with musical instruments. All I can say is that while this was cheap, it is really just a toy guitar and I have had to put it in the bin; I just wish it wasn't used and chipped by the kids before I could send it back. The replacement I bought was 86 gbp, but ultimately it works. I really wish I hadn't wasted my money on this.