I was hesitant to buy this after reading other reviews, but for the money you pay this is a much better guitar than you can find in the general stores like Walmart. We bought this for my boyfriend's little girl (only 9) who wanted to learn how to play the guitar. It is not professional quality by any means. But it's full size, sounds great and was an overall great purchase. This is much better than going out and paying 200.00 on an expensive guitar and then realizing she doesn't really want to play anyhow and it never gets touched again. Instead, when she opened this on Christmas morning, she was so happy. The bright pink was a definite plus with her!! and she is playing away after just a few minutes. Its a nice starter guitar.