Harley Benton GL-2NT Guitarlele 4-stars Reviews

Great sound!

Bought it for its exceptional low price to transform it into an 8 string ukulele. Its well constructed so it was very easy to work with.

Replaced the tuner pegs with a mandolin set, modified the headstock and glued a strip with holes on the bridge so it can be stringed with 6 or 8 strings.

Sounds very good, its loud and not too bright and has longer sustain and depth than my $500 8 string Kala uke.

Highly recommend this Guilele.

Price/sound

Nice instrument for low price

Harley Benton Guitarlele

This "novelty" instrument is basically a smaller guitar, tuned as if a regular guitar had a capo on the 5th fret.

The sound is very close to a classical guitar (it has nylon strings), but a little less deep, due to the small size of the body. All in all, the sound is quite pleasing.

This little guitarlele is great to bring when hiking, traveling, camping and also working.

It could even be played while traveling in a van during the journey.

For those who'd like to tune it like a regular guitar:

Tuning it down with its original strings makes them a little "rubbery", but it can still be played well and sound good. Maybe a little fret buzz here and there, but nothing major.

I think it could benefit from higher tension classical guitar strings, if I'll ever try I'll update this review.

Very easily recommended little big intrument.

Learning and playing

A very nice instrument, it has a more opened sound than its Yamaha similar. That is because of its good woods. And dimensions are just fit to 4 year old up to adult. I really recomend it.