Monoprice SGI41 Spruce Top Steel String Acoustic Guitar - Natural With Complete Accessories and Gig Bag, Full‑size Dreadnought Body - Idyllwild Series

shipped in great shape. great looking and sounding well worth the money . i'm a guitarest of 30 years bought for grand daughter .i would gig with this guitar

This guitar is an excellent deal. You really get a lot for yout money with Monoprice stuff, and this is o exception. This guitar is a laminate top guitar (despite being called a solid top, in some ads.) Modern laminates are amazing. The modern technology for making laminates results in a high quality composite. Yes, laminate top guitars sound different than solid top guitars. They don't resonate to the extent that a solid top guitar does, however, with the high quailty of modern laminate top guitar, they can produce a very nice sound. And, for certain applications (like recording) they can be less boomy than solid top guitars. Remember that the ES335 style guitars use a laminated maple. This acoustic guitar, sounds nice. Is it as good as a more expensive guitars? Probably not, but you pay a whole lot for the extra 10% - 15% of sound quality. My opinion is that they did a great job on this gutar. It sounds nice, and it plays nice. The workmanship is very good. It has no scalloping on the braces, and that makes for a balanced sound. It has a pretty big sound (espeically while using a pick) that is even and clear. The tuners appear to be decent. It's a very lightweight guitar (making for better resonance.) This guitar will easily fill the needs of most players. I recommend this guitar. One of the really cool things about it is that you don't have to treat is like a precious, museum piece. It's an everyday strummer and picker. You can't go wroing with this guitar, unless you're a guitar snoot who likes the subtle nuances of expensive, opulent brand guitars. The lightweight finish on this guitar, makes for more resonance, but a little less protection from scratches, bumps. If you buy this guitar, I don't think that you'll be disappointed. Right out of the box this guitar's action was good (Monoprice seems to do a good job with this.) I hate to sound like an advertisement, but: What's not to like ? Yes, it's not a Taylor or Martin, and won't sound like them. However, when I'm standing on a patio jamming with the guys and their expensive guitar, and I have one of my economy guitars, no one is paying attention to that fact. They much more pay attention to the facti that I've put in the time to make play decent licks. They're not condentrating on the price of my guitar, and neither is an audience. They much more notice whether or not you've practiced your instrument. So, grab a Monoprice guitar, and show 'em what you've practiced. Chances are they're gonna dig it..

Solid spruce top, great price, what's not to like? Put Slinky 10's on it, tuned it in perfect 4ths, and I have an acoustic blues machine. Thanks Monoprice. Love it!

It's has a nice sound and is a good-looking guitar.

I've been playing guitar, mostly electric, for about 20 years. I'd kind of wanted to get back into some acoustic sounds, and I saw this Monoprice guitar and took a chance on it. For the price, I'm very glad I did. Putting aside the name on the headstock, this is a very good guitar for the money. The intonation is very close (but not perfect). The fretwork is good (could have been polished a bit more, and bending feels a tiny bit gritty; there will likely be some sprout as it ages and dries out - you can just begin to feel the edges of some of the frets). It feels good to play and the action is reasonably low. The neck is straight, but not enough to produce fret buzz. The strings it comes with are a bit on the heavy side. It's loud, responsive, and harmonics sound good. For me, this is a great guitar to keep out in the living room or take places, without worrying too much if it gets banged up. I'd also recommend it as a starter guitar: I had no buzzy frets, no choked out action, etc., so it had nothing that would making learning to play unpleasant (aside from the higher gauge strings, which can be changed - but it's not bad to build up that finger strength early, either). For a guitar under $100, including a decent gig bag, spare strings, a tuner, etc., this really checks all the boxes. The guitar even looks decent, as much as I'd prefer the headstock, sides, and back to have more of the classic dark coloration. I've recently played a guitar from a similar kit produced by a big brand, and while I was also very pleasantly surprised with what you can get with a starter guitar these days (versus 20 years ago), that big-name guitar needed fret leveling badly enough that the b and g strings were not really usable from the 12th-14th frets - not an issue I had here. Despite the lower cost, I'd prefer this Monoprice guitar.

Bought this for my son for a Christmas present. He said he wanted to start playing the guitar. Very nice Guitar. No set up needed at all. Put a set of Ernie ball Silk n Steel strings on it 10's.Lowered the action down significantly. Just by putting these on. Made it very easy to play. These strings have low tension tension and helped lower the action. The guitar was flawless in finish and sounded great.Very good purchase. Nice case and accessories. Everything he needed to get started. Perfect for beginner player. Great price. It was on sale.

The guitar is very good, does not have a gloss finish, but plays well, took the guitar to a repair shop, for setup, tech says that the guitar is very good,enjoy it. Thank you, I am very happy with it..

Not a bad guitar for $99.00! It is a little muffled(soft) sounding, but it is what I expected for the price. Nicely built and is just something to sit and pick on in an open tuning. I am going to buy the pricier ($249?) acoustic next and compare them. This one does hold its tuning and came out the box ready to play.

Very happy with the guitar, especially for the price. And when it?s on sale, it?s even better! Nice tone, no buzzes, excellent craftsmanship as far as I can tell. Very nice soft case, too. (I added the pick guard shown in the photo)