Ashthorpe 30-inch Beginner Acoustic Guitar Package (Mint Green), Basic Starter Kit w/Gig Bag, Strings, Strap, Tuner, Picks

This is great for a beginner guitar. My teenage daughter loves the style and I love that it didn’t break the bank! It comes with a cloth cover and other accessories.

This was so beautiful when I opened the box. It was packaged nicely and great quality. The tuning accuracy is great and it’s perfect for first timers !

Besides is perfect, sound quality is great, and worth the money.

Bought this for my daughter. She is taking music classes and thought this would be a good starting instrument. The bead that holds the string just fell off. We take good care of it and is only used when practicing or in class. Didn’t want to buy something super expensive since she’s barely getting the hang of it but do remember you get what you pay for. Contacted the seller and they were very helpful agreed to replacing it as long as they can inspect it and see if it’s a manufacturing problem, but I do not have the time to ship and wait for them to return due to her having class every week. So just going to try to fix it my self and hope for the best. The case is also cheaply made. Gets stuck every time I go to zip it up. But other than that she has really enjoyed it and it is a beautiful guitar.

This is a perfect size for a kid. It is easy to hold, comes with extra strings, picks, and a tuner. Great value! My child loves it!!

My son is OBSESSED with guitars. We got him this one for his birthday and it has exceeded expectations. He is very rough with it and it has withstood many throws and bangs. The sound is fabulous too. My Husband is a musician, and he can tune it accurately and can play it as well. My son is 3 so it’s a little big for him but he still loves it. Worth the buy!

Do not buy this guitar. It sounds and looks great, but it can’t be tuned. Other people have noted this in their reviews, but I assumed that they either were not musicians, were inexperienced at tuning, or perhaps didn't realize that new string go out of tune quickly until they stretch out. Actually, they knew what they were talking about. These guitars are not tunable. Teaching someone to play guitar on an instrument that can’t be tuned, is like teaching someone to drive using a car with poor wheel alignment and malfunctioning steering.• I bought two 38" guitars, a blue and a sunburst version. Both had the same problems. If the strings are in-tune when they are open (no chord being fingered) then they will be out of tune when a chord is fingered. If you tune the guitar so that a particular chord is in-tune, then when the strings are strummed while open (no fingers pressing down on them) they will be out of tune. This appears to be due largely to the excessively high action (height of strings over the fret board) of the guitar. When a string is pressed to the fret board, it stretches more than it should, changing the pitch inordinately. I think there are other contributing factors as well, perhaps the frets are slightly misaligned, but I can’t say with certainty. It would not add to the manufacturing cost to eliminate these problems. It is simply a question of basic design and precision.• Excessively high action (height of strings over the fret board) makes fingering chords more difficult. Even for me, playing certain barre chords close to the nut (top of the neck) was a challenge. Standard chords that children will be taught first are all playable, but slightly more difficult than they should be, especially for little hands.• Sound quality, or tone as some people refer to it, is very good. I was surprised. While the guitar does not sound like a Martin (gold standard), it has a bright, snappy sound with plenty of resonance and overtones. It is a steel string guitar (instead of nylon like many starter guitars) and this makes a big positive difference. I enjoyed playing it in this regard. Given the price, it is excellent. I believe that the people who complain about the tone of the guitar, are really hearing the dissonance of poor tuning. If the guitar is tuned perfectly for a single chord, which is possible, it sounds great—pretty cool actually.• The paint jobs are great for kids. They are bright, colorful, and shiny. There are a few minor blemishes and imperfections, but so what. Given the price, they are wonderful.• Electronic digital tunero Looks nifty, but it is not high quality. After tuning with it, I still needed to make small adjustments by ear. Not a good situation for a beginner player, but probably it is fine. To be fair, a Peterson electronic tuner (gold standard) costs as much as this guitar.o After turning it on, the user must select from chromatic, violin, guitar, bass, and ukulele. It remembers the selection the next time it is turned on, but it is easy to change the selection inadvertently. This is a poor design for children. But almost all tuners are like this. It is an inexpensive way for the manufacturer to provide value. Practically speaking, it is just a nuisance. Most people buy a tuner for a single instrument.o The single control button is extremely awkward and difficult to locate and press. Just a bad design.o Before it can be used, a paper tab needs to be removed from the battery. When the tab is pulled (to remove it) it rips, leaving in the battery compartment paper which still must be removed to activate the device. This happened on each tuner that came with the two guitars I bought. A very, very tiny Phillips head screw locks the battery compartment door. A jeweler’s screwdriver is needed to remove it.• Pitch pipe does not work well at all. A horrific little device, it is difficult to get sound from it. Looks like something they threw-in in a desperate and misguided attempt to compensate for the fact that the guitar cannot be tuned properly.• The guitar comes with a single instruction page (front and back) of useful information, which includes valuable instruction about traditional ways to tune a guitar. While well done, one gets the feeling that it is again a desperate and misguided attempt to compensate for the fact that the guitar cannot be tuned properly. Bizarrely, one side of the page also contains diagrams for fingering many different barre chords. Barre chords are for advanced players. Diagrams of basic chords that beginners need to learn first would be far more useful.• One must conclude that the people who are satisfied with these guitars and don’t return them are themselves not musicians, or don't have a good ear for music. Even an amateur musician should deem these guitars unacceptable.

The strap is very flimsy. It broke the first time we connected it to the guitar. The finish on the guitar is very thin and scratches easily. And this was after just a very few minutes of opening the box and allowing the child to practice with it on day one. We shall see how well it holds up to continued use.