Yamaha GL1 Mini 6-String Nylon Guitalele Tobacco Sunburst

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Just got a Yamaha sunburst guitarlele, after getting into the ukulele thing lately. And I bought it mostly thinking I could help my classical guitar playing with it- so I was torn between trying this and getting a smaller 1/2 or 3/4 classical, cause I'm getting old and the guitar is wearing me out sooner. So I was wondering if this was too small. And it is a challenge. But the sound is great! I was sitting on my bed tonight messing around with this, and it finally seems to me if I play this lightly, it can't help but make my guitar playing better. Even though it's tuned higher, you can still use the same chord forms, they're just not the same chords- they are the IV chord of whatever form you're using. So unless you're playing with someone else, it's all just relative tuning- only higher- and it makes you think! I was reading my usual classical pieces, and even watching television. The higher sound has a Renaisance air about it, and a natural for Celtic as well- the lower few strings sound a bit like a bohdrun, and I was improvising some lilts on the top. It's like a little lute somehow. The Yahama quality is suberb as you'd expect. Really great workmanship for something this price. I read other reviews concerning the Cordoba model, and they spoke of the Yamaha's slightly wider neck in negative terms, but as for me, I wouldn't want it any more narrow- the strings are already quite close, more so than either a uke or a classical guitar It comes with a gig bag like the others- the ads weren't clear on that, and I wish they'd put a rossette on it. Don't know what the strings are but they seem comparable to my usual Daddario Pro Arte- not nylgut like a lot of ukes, but totally acceptable first set.