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Originally Posted by Tony Burns
the one i saw at a Best-Buy a few weeks ago was very poorly build and very low end - something i would consider a poor quality childrens toy.
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Have you checked out some of the You Tube videos of people playing this little Yamaha guitalele? It seems there are quite a few people managing to get really attractive sounds out of this instrument, plywood top or no plywood top.
Here's an example, this man gets really lovely tone out of this budget instrument (despite the automatic volume control in the camcorder audibly squashing all the peaks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumuT...eature=related
And another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Pf-...eature=related
And this is a pretty nice demo of the instrument, including comparison with a regular guitar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHL0...eature=related
If my hands were smaller I'd probably get one of these just for fun and giggles (and to add interesting sounds to some of my home recordings).
-Gnobuddy