Music Alley MA34-N Classical Junior Acoustic Guitar For
Music Alley MA34-N Classical Junior Acoustic Guitar For Kids, 34 Inch
Introducing the Music Alley MA34 Acoustic Guitar
Linden Body
The linden body of this Music Alley acoustic guitar generates a warm tone. Measuring in at 34 inches it is the ideal candidate as kids guitar being both lightweight and smaller than your traditional body.
Metal Gearheads
Easy to turn by even the smallest of hand and designed to last the rigours of a musical journey the metal gear-heads represent the quality you can expect from a Music Alley product.
Nylon Strings
Easier on the fingers and warmer sounding on the ears the nylon strings present on the Music Alley acoustic guitar are designed to ensure hours of comfortable play.
| Weight: | 962 g |
| Size: | 30.0 |
| Dimensions: | 84.07 x 30.99 x 8.89 cm; 961.62 Grams |
| Model: | MA34-N |
| Colour: | Natural |
| Manufacture: | Music Alley |
| Dimensions: | 84.07 x 30.99 x 8.89 cm; 961.62 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
| Size: | 30.0 |
problems with various frets ‘ buzzing ‘. had to file down several of these frets to allow progression to
musical notes higher up on the fretboard. it’s ok now as aged 7 he still engages on the lower frets.
y a used shop for the same price.
thing felt like it’s made of lackered amazon packaging and strings felt and sounded like those strings inside the amazon tape.
on the other hand, what can one expect for the price. pay sh, get sh.
The size is great for him and it is comfortable for him to hold. We ordered an electric tuner with it and it all seems to be ok (I’m no guitar expert though). I think for beginners this is a great little guitar for the price.
For the price I paid this is a decent 2/3rds
What lets it down out of the box is the set of supplied strings. To be fair it comes with a spare set – but you’d have to be a masochist to ever consider putting another set as bad as those supplied with it.
The issue really is that just a pod or two more they could have fitted a much better set. The gauge on the top E string is minute. And tuning it to top E is likely to snap it – it’s that thin and flimsy. So maybe tune half an octave down (yes – half an octave)
Almost better if it came with no strings.
But for all that the sound is pretty good (for a VERY cheap guitar) the build quality is Ok and the packaging adequate. I’d recommend it – but suggest any buyer gets better strings to go with it from day one.
The quality of the guitar seems good to me for the price, obviously not professional standards, I think one of the low strings twangs a bit, doesn’t bother me. It’s a nice solid wood, fully varnished, strings have enough tension to be tuned properly and the fret-board/neck is about the right size for a 5 year old’s fingers in my opinion.
I saw a review on here whereby the bridge completely unstuck after it had been “professionally tuned”. We didn’t have any problems, had it over two months now. I tuned it myself, and just very gently pulled on the nylon strings upward when tuning it for the first time to give them a little bit of flexibility (don’t do this on steel string guitars by the way). It naturally de-tuned itself in the first couple of days, this is normal for new strings, after that it’s been fine. I just re-iterate to my 5 and 3 year olds to just respect the guitar, i.e. not leave it on the floor, put it in the corner when you’re not using it etc. etc., normal with children, and a nice learning experience on how to treat instruments.
I’ve found myself picking it up and have a few practice runs myself as it’s in the living room to hand! Cheap price and a reasonable quality considering the price. Design is generic enough to out live a child’s fast changing trends and tastes, so should do until they leave primary school and then until they want to get serious with guitar playing. Excellent and would recommend.
Your not going to get a high level piece of musical equipment but its not supposed to be! I purchased for my kids to play around with during lock down, maybe even decide to take it up as a hobby. In the first aspect it worked perfectly they pick it up and play around with it and its surviving well. needs tuning often due to string stretch but its holding up to the rigor of daily life with kids.
my only problem is that it does not allow for a guitar strap to be fitted so the kids must be sat to play it.
Not succeeded it having them then take it up as a hobby yet.
When it arrived, for 20 I was expecting to have to assemble and string, to my amazement this came fully strung (but understandably out of tune) and suitable paper slipped under the strings to protect the fretboard.
As you would expect the finish is in part cheap, but tidy and I would say good value for money.
This did take a while to tune and for the strings (especially the three thin nylon ones) to fully stretch before they would hold a note. Seriously; we gave this to our daughter for Christmas and with daily use this took a good 3 weeks before you could play for half an hour with good note retention. You could re-string with steel to ease this but beware of tiny fingers and the harshness of steel strings on soft fingertips; personally I would persevere with the nylon and the dullness of note until they have got a bit more experience.
Size wise, our daughter is 7, but is tall for her age; this is marginally too big for her. She can reach a ‘C’ chord, but only just. This is a grower for her and would probably best suit and ‘average’ 9yo onwards. As an adult demonstarating, it is playable, but very tight!!!
In summary; it’s 20 so don’t be expecting Fender or Larrivee sound quality, be prepared to spend time letting the strings stretch out before they hold a note but for what you pay and what it is designed for it does the job.