2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Nice looking guitar that sounds good to my ear.,
September 2, 2011 Michael Lane "photos.mikelanestudios.com" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barcelona 41-Inch Cutaway Acoustic Guitar - Black
I'm a novice guitar player. I've got two other guitars, a $200-ish electric, and the Jasmine by Takamine S35 Acoustic Guitar, Natural (which has very impressive ratings on amazon). I'm taking lessons with my electric guitar and I love playing it and working on finger picking and chords up higher in the register. My wife doesn't want to take lessons but she wants to learn to just "jam" easy songs. Plus we'd like to be able to take guitars with us camping or on road trips. So I got this Barcelona guitar because it was the only inexpensive 41" guitar with a cutaway that I could find. Unfortunately there were no reviews, but I decided to just go with it anyhow.
My impressions are that this is a solidly constructed guitar. Like I said, I have the highly rated inexpensive Jasmine acoustic guitar as my only real comparison and the...Read more
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Lacking build quality,
November 2, 2011 adityar - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Barcelona 41-Inch Cutaway Acoustic Guitar - Black
The guitar arrived on time but I'm not impressed with the build and sound quality. I have a Clayton Full-Size Guitar of about the same price and that looks much nicer and sturdy than the brand new one that I got. The guitar strings that arrived are rusted at places and that does raises some question of build quality on this. The sound also seems off but I can't put a finger on how to describe it. All in all, I'd rather try buying the Jasmine next time.