Yamaha GL1 5-stars Reviews

Lovely tiny little guitar

You want the classic guitar experience, but can't be bothered to take the big Guitar? Then have some fun with this tiny thing, great price, great quality, really enjoyable sound, just wish it had a Piezo Pickup like my Ukebass, probably going to order a kit and modify my Ukeguitar.

The UkeBass and UkeGuitar now tend to live right beside me on my sofa, for easy grab and play when I have an Idea, just remember that the Ukeguitar plays as if you had a Capo on the 5th fret of a classic guitar.

Real good!

This one surprise me every time I pick it up to play. A real good guitar and a great sound!

Bought this for my son, use it more myself

This is a really nice little guitar to play around with. I really can't fault it.

Why do I have this only now?

It's just a lot of fun to play, it has it's own tone characteristic being all solid wood and I could even record sounding pretty decent. Since it's so small it turns out to be the one which is picked up all the time and played on the most.

Super guitalele

Lovely sound and good Yamaha quality.

Bought the Guitalele as a sailboat guitar.

Great travel guitar with deep and lovely sound that you do not expect from the instrument of her size!

Good quality/price ratio.

At first i thought it will be impossible to take chords with my wurst-like fingers but surprisingly i got used to it very fast.

Before buying you need to take into account that her standard tune is 2.5 tone higher than 6-string guitar' tune. (A-D-G-C-E-A versus E-A-D-G-B-E). Just put capo on the 5th fret of your 6-string guitar and you will get close to what Guitalele is.

Anyway she is really lovely and the most compact guitar I ever had. Definitely worth the asking money.

Just fantastic.

It's hard to understand how an instrument like this can be sold at the price. This is not a toy, it's an actual real instrument. Bought it for my kid but I play it once in a while and love it. Buy it for your kid, to travel with, or just tinker around for fun once in a while. You can't go wrong with this one.

The perfect practice guitar

I keep raving about this one. When I started playing the guitar, I got a dreadnought, nothing too expensive. It was great! It's pretty loud and slightly unwieldy though, so I noticed I only played the thing for an hour on a Friday when no one was home.

I made some progress, but it was slow.

At this price, the Yamaha GL1 seemed like quite the bargain so I thought: Heh, why not just pick it up?

Boy am I glad I did. This thing just lays around the house, and I seem to pick it up whenever I have a few minutes. Playing the guitar became PLAYING the guitar.

Now, by the time I play something on the dreadnought, I've probably already played it 20 times on this thing. It plays wonderful, resonates like crazy and truly is an instrument, not a toy.

Sure, some people would classify this as a travel guitar. Not me though. To me, this is the perfect practice guitar.

It's been so good, that right now, I'm eyeing the Cordoba Mini Series. A different price class, but the form factor is really ideal for anyone looking to gain some practice.

Good little companion

Build quality/tone/playability is much better than I expected for the instrument in that price range. The gigbag is nice, usefull. The frets are not nicely polished, but can be fixed easily. Many hours of fun with this little instrument. And now I can also jam with my 3 year old :)

Every home should have one.

I bought two of these for my grandchildren. Everyone who tried them (the guitar, not the grandchildren) could hardly put them down. It's just a really well made instrument to have fun with and sounds very sweet indeed.

Bearing in mind the quality of these tiny instruments, they are an absolute bargain!

Definitely NOT a Toy

I initially bought this as a novelty instrument but quickly realised it is a real and very useable instrument. It sounds great and is very loud for such a small instrument. I would definitely recommend the Yamaha GL1!

Great little guitar

Feels nice under the fingers. Sounds great for the size of it. Well made, nice finish and sturdy build.I have mine for about 4 years now and I love it. Perfect travel guitar. I would buy another if I ever lost or broke this one.

Durable little guitar

I bought this guitarlele as a travel guitar for me and as a fooling around guitar for my small children. In ukulele style strumming the sound is nice but in classical guitar style the sound is a bit dry because of the small size of the guitar and the fact that it is all laminate.

Guitar is well made and finished and playability was good straight out of the box. The guitar is ultra durable, the kids have stander on top of it banged it all around. There are multiple dings all over the guitar but no serious damages.

This guitar is not a toy but still it lasts even in the hands of small future guitarists and the sound is far better than the plastic guitar/ukuleles. In addition it is nice coach/travel guitar that also allows you to practise ukulele stuff.

the smallest guitar I ever had

I was looking for some ukelele which I can take everywhere, but the reason I use to play 6-strings guitar made me decide to buy this Yamaha GL1. It sounds like regular ukelele but in same time is more than it. I had just one problem. The saddle was too high and and that is very annoying. But I fixed this problem easy. Just removed it and cut few millimeters from the bottom. And the result was great. Now the playing on this Yamaha GL1 is very easy, comfortable and on tune wherever you play on the fretboard. I'm happy to have it in my collection. It's a lot of fun to play on this little beauty.

Great value for money

This is an excellent little guitar. The tone is lovely (I've strung mine with Pyramid black nylons), it weighs next to nothing and not much bigger than a ukulele so it's extremely portable. For this price, it's the best value for money out of all the guitars I own.

Good Value

I purchased the GL 1 just for fun. A tiny guitar for trying out chords while sitting at the TV! I knew that the quality would be good, coming with the Yamaha brand. The fretboard is a bit cramped, but it does have it's own distinctive sound, not the instrument to launch a career, but at this price point, great value for money. Definitely would benefit from a a string upgrade though. Overall very good value.