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Yamaha GL1

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Yamaha GL1
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The perfect practice guitar
Anonymous 18.01.2017
I keep raving about this one. When I started playing the guitar, I got a dreadnought, nothing too expensive. It was great! It's pretty loud and slightly unwieldy though, so I noticed I only played the thing for an hour on a Friday when no one was home.

I made some progress, but it was slow.

At this price, the Yamaha GL1 seemed like quite the bargain so I thought: Heh, why not just pick it up?

Boy am I glad I did. This thing just lays around the house, and I seem to pick it up whenever I have a few minutes. Playing the guitar became PLAYING the guitar.

Now, by the time I play something on the dreadnought, I've probably already played it 20 times on this thing. It plays wonderful, resonates like crazy and truly is an instrument, not a toy.

Sure, some people would classify this as a travel guitar. Not me though. To me, this is the perfect practice guitar.

It's been so good, that right now, I'm eyeing the Cordoba Mini Series. A different price class, but the form factor is really ideal for anyone looking to gain some practice.
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Every home should have one.
Anonymous 26.01.2016
I bought two of these for my grandchildren. Everyone who tried them (the guitar, not the grandchildren) could hardly put them down. It's just a really well made instrument to have fun with and sounds very sweet indeed.
Bearing in mind the quality of these tiny instruments, they are an absolute bargain!
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Fun instrument to play
Nenad Vicentic 20.07.2020
This Guitalele was a gift, so I played it only few days.

Cons: build quality is a bit worse than what one might expect seeing photos of Yamaha GL1. No color and no lacquer on a few spots on the back of the body and overall finish could be much better.

Pros: very playable instrument and a lot of fun to play. Sound is OK. It is lightweight and easy to carry around.

Even though build finish is subpar, I would recommend this instrument.
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cheap but good!
fatals 13.08.2021
it's a good toy, a little too simple in details and in varnish, I would expect at least a rosette around the hole ...
highly recommend aquila red series strings (keeps the tuning in A and the sound became deep and full)
Tuners works quite well... and the woods are touch-pleasing. you cannot expect more at this price.
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Mine seems to have a bad neck angle but it is cheap as chips
Xaghru 20.02.2024
Fixed the action, I bought for my daughter, she never played it but I get requests to sing her to sleep everyday...setlist include Rock classics Queen, Floyd, Elton John, Sinead, Black Sabbath lol but it sounds kind of sweet on a high-pitched guitalele 🤣
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Why do I have this only now?
Wllm 25.03.2020
It's just a lot of fun to play, it has it's own tone characteristic being all solid wood and I could even record sounding pretty decent. Since it's so small it turns out to be the one which is picked up all the time and played on the most.
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With a high 4th string your Ukulele group can't refuse you
Prime Design 02.04.2019
Brilliant ukulele for a guitar player to fit quickly into a ukulele group. Finger-board works great with guitar chords! Only drawback is the slightly rough body edges, which might require some 'retro sanding' and varnishing. Overall though; a brilliant little guitarlele, complete with a high 4th string!
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Bought this for my son, use it more myself
Shanshocked 08.03.2021
This is a really nice little guitar to play around with. I really can't fault it.
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captain mint 18.01.2020
my G string was worn badly after 2 days of playing, everything is fine other than that. recommend purchasing extra strings to replace to the original ones
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Just fantastic.
Roy Mcavoy 09.06.2018
It's hard to understand how an instrument like this can be sold at the price. This is not a toy, it's an actual real instrument. Bought it for my kid but I play it once in a while and love it. Buy it for your kid, to travel with, or just tinker around for fun once in a while. You can't go wrong with this one.
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