Valencia Classical Kit 1 3/4 Size Classical Acoustic Guitar

by Valencia

Product Features

• An Amazing Price On A 3/4 Size Guitar!
• Beautiful Spanish Guitar Styling, usually only found on guitars double this price!
• Standard Classical Guitar Setup: Bottom 3 strings are steel strings, top 3 are nylon strings.
• Natowood fretboard and bridge. Elegant Basswood back and sides.
• Also available on Amazon in Black and Pink

Product Details

• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000QRHA6E
• Item model number: Valencia Classical Kit 1 3/4 Acoustic
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,706 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #7 in Musical Instruments > Guitars > Classical & Nylon-String Guitars
  • #47 in Musical Instruments > Guitars > Acoustic Guitars

Product Description

Beautiful Spanish guitar styling, usually only found on guitars double this price! Standard classical guitar setup: bottom 3 strings are steel strings, top 3 are nylon strings. Classical style open tuners. Natowood fretboard and bridge. Elegant basswood back and sides. Ornate sound hole binding. Free instructional DVD included! Overall length 36 1/2". Width of the nut 1 11/16" Scale length 23". Weight 5 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Its ok for a little kid, March 21, 2010

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D. Goodstein-Tyler (denver colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Valencia Classical Kit 1 3/4 Size Classical Acoustic Guitar

I bought this for my son's 7th birthday. He's been watching me play guitar and has lately told me that he wants to play too. I think this will be fine for him to figure out if he wants to go further.

First off, the guitar. Once I stretched out the strings, it does stay in tune mostly. The "B" string goes out much faster than the others, but that's not that big a deal. There are areas of the finish aruond the sound hole that aren't finished well and parts of the fretboard that aren't look rough. Despite this, the frets are smooth to the edge of the neck and isn't rough for my boy's hands. Notes sound correct up till the 9th fret or so- far more than he's going to need. If you don't look at it too closely, it looks like a real guitar. For the most part it even sounds like one.

The bag- its a nylon bag with handles and it is possible to carry the guitar in it if your child were to take it to a lesson. It is a bit difficult to get the guitar out of the bag without moving the tuners, but since the guitar is going out of tune all the time anyway it doesn't really matter.

The CD- don't get too excited about this. The CD is geared toward an adult audience, not to kids as I would have thought, coming as it does with a 3/4 sized guitar. But it does show how to change the strings and how to play a few songs. If you want to teach you kid how to play guitar, the Mel Bay Children's guitar method is what I bought. It's cheap and fun.

Overall, I didn't think I got ripped off with this product. It was a fair price and will provide my son with what he needs to get started with guitar.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Guitar for our Beginner Guitar Player, March 25, 2010

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Sara Colorado (Colorado) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Valencia Classical Kit 1 3/4 Size Classical Acoustic Guitar

My son couldn't quite fit with our full-size guitar. He began saving for his own. This was the perfect guitar for him. I was so impressed with 1) how extremely FAST it shipped to us (and he was glad he didn't have to wait too long after buying it). 2) How nice the guitar is...it's prettier than the pictured guitar here. 3) It comes with a bag. 4) It is affordable. 5) It has a very nice sound to it. It did take a while to tune it, but it's staying tuned easier as we've had it a few months now. It really is the perfect size for my 7 year old...and he'll use it for a few years *at least* before he needs a full size. I couldn't be happier with the price, the purchse, the seller, the instrument!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice guitar, July 29, 2010

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Dan "danfromny" (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Valencia Classical Kit 1 3/4 Size Classical Acoustic Guitar

Got this for my 8 yo. It's a little too big for him, but I am playing it now. My old guitar is steel string. I like the nylon strings on this guitar. It stays in tune, sounds nice and seems to be very solidly constructed.