Customer Reviews

6 String Travel Guitar - Blue (Blowout Sale - Limited Time Only!)

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First, this is more of a strum stick than a bona fide dulcimer.

It will be hard to find music for a 6 stringer, but you can adapt the strings to a D-A-D configuration. You play this like a cheap guitar.

Second, it should always be priced in the $30 range or less because it is inexpensive quality and mass produced so this advertisement about "Blowout Sale - Today Only" which has been going on for awhile really isn't true. It is not worth $90+ to begin with.

Third, you will need a tuner because this strum stick comes untuned. It does come with a nice carrying case, extra string, and a pick.

Conclusion: If you want to play an authentic 3-4 string dulcimer on your lap like the original musicians did and do, this is not the instrument for you.

This is actually not any sort of dulcimer. It is a sort of cheap knockoff of Martin's Backpacker guitar. The Martin is quite clever in that the neck and sides are all one piece of wood. This one is merely a neck glued to a similarly shaped body. The construction and finish are rather crude. The fretboard is whatever nondescript wood dyed black, body is plywood, and the finish looks like sprayed enamel.

This guitar differs from the Martin BP in having a floating bridge and tailpiece. The bridge is deeply slotted, which robs tone (what tone you could get from the small plywood body), but is necessary in order to get a more reasonable spacing of the strings, since the tailpiece is way too narrow (and probably from a children's toy guitar). I could position the bridge to give reasonable intonation, but the break angle of the strings is too small to give good tension on the bridge. The tuners are about in par for the rest of the gutiar. They do turn, actually, just not well.

Actually, I mostly wrote this review to point out that the demensions are similar to the Backpacker. The guitar is actually nearly 36 inches long, not the 24 or 25 inches described.

In short, you are getting what you pay for. And $30 for a guitar will not get you much.

I don't know what I was thinking when I bought this one. I opened it up, tuned the strings and started playing. Some of the frets couldn't hold the strings and the bridge is a floating-style - not very durable for a traveler.

I returned it the next day for a full refund (shipping at my expense). Spend a little extra dough and get a better guitar. This one is not even good enough for a toy.

this item is made of cheap wood and is not able to be tuned. when i tried to tune it for the first time the screw in the bridge was pull up throughthe wood leaving an unfixxable gaxs.

it is ok looking and would make a good decorative piece but nothing more. think very hard about it before you spend your money on this item!