Half decent really small / mini guitar recommendations

Beardy_Jonny · May 2020

Hi, can anyone recommend a decent guitar that can be played in standard EADGBA and is similar in size to the Cordoba Mini?

The two most popular that keeps popping up on forums and review websites are Cordoba Mini and the Yamaha Guitalele but wanted to know if anyone had other recommendations other than these two?

ideally with a solid headstock and steel strings but I could live with nylon.

Max around £250.

Thanks!!

domforr · May 2020

Haven't tried one, but might be worth a punt: https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/travel-guitar/vintage-vtr800pb-viator-paul-brett-signature-travel-guitar?msclkid=6e59274116561f22c62e79eee32d99dc&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=UK%20-%20Bing%20-%20PLA%20-%20In%20Stock&utm_term=4580015686022122&utm_content=UK%20-%20Bing%20-%20PLA%20-%20In%20Stock%20-%20Guitars

Exorcist · May 2020

fwiw I bought my daughter a yamaha guitalele thing, and I was very impressed. You just tune it to A - I often find myself noodling on it - much better than any of those awful cheap 3/4 classical guitars

mine came from the amazon warehouse I think and was a decent price at the time

Beardy_Jonny · May 2020

Exorcist said:

fwiw I bought my daughter a yamaha guitalele thing, and I was very impressed. You just tune it to A - I often find myself noodling on it - much better than any of those awful cheap 3/4 classical guitars

mine came from the amazon warehouse I think and was a decent price at the time

I am considering the GL1 again. I'm a beginner and I'm learning to play with GuitarTricks. I have a full size guitar but was considering getting a Guitalele like the Yamaha GL1 to practice around the house and on the sofa.

does anyone have any experience with learning on a Guitalele? I was wondering as it is tuned differently ADGCEA instead of the standard EADGBE will this stop me from learning along to the videos? I know it will sound a 4th higher but in my mind that will still be ok for learning with the training videos?

danowens · May 2020

I regularly play a Guitarlele (Like a normal guitar but with a capo at fret 5), the Vintage Viator which is a Terz guitar (like a capo at fret 3) and a gypsy jazz guitar which has a huge scale length.

As long as I'm not playing along to anything I can substitute each guitar for each other; indeed learning the same tune on all three is a really fun challenge. As far as learning goes though, I would never try to learn guitar on a guitarlele as the fret spacing is TINY. The Terz spacing is much nicer and you can easily get a Yamaha JR1/2 which has a similar scale length to the Viator for under £100.

Jontommy · May 2020

Cort mini. Cracking little things. Best travel acoustic I’ve played.
https://www.bax-shop.co.uk/steel-string-guitar/cort-earth-mini-open-pore-acoustic-guitar?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuarU5f6c6QIVibbtCh0nzQD5EAUYASABEgLmL_D_BwE

Grampa · May 2020

If you don't mind going used then you should be able to get a vgc Baby Taylor (BT1 or BT2), or Little Martin LX? (various models available) for your £250. Can't really go wrong with Taylor or Martin TBH.

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