First Act Discovery FG130 Student Acoustic Guitar

by rkoehler on 2009/10/15

Natural acoustic
Sized for smaller hands
Low string actions
Steel reinforced neck
Select natural wood top

Product Description
30" Acoustic GuitarAmazon.com
With the First Act Discovery 30" Student Acoustic Guitar you can start your child on the path to a lifetime's enjoyment of music. The First Act student acoustic guitar is designed especially for children to learn and grow on. Its steel reinforced neck prevents warping, twisting and snapping. The steel neck also allows the neck to be thinner which makes the guitar easier to hold for a child's smaller hand. Steel tuning gears pr... More >>

First Act Discovery FG130 Student Acoustic Guitar

Tagged as: Acoustic, Discovery, FG130, First, Guitar, Student

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

B. Zhang October 15, 2009 at 7:06 pm: I bought this about 3 years ago cause I wanted to learn guitar. It got me started. It’s a laminated guitar = very cheap, not well made. You can stratch the paint very easily–I’ve curved just about anything on mine. There’s excess glue showing, another sign of a badly made guitar. It’s durable enough. It doesn’t stay in tune very well–for only about a day. The sound is terrible when you go up the fret. The action’s pretty low but sometimes too low that you got fret buzz. The strings it comes with is bad–change it! The inlays are just stickers and they stratch right off. The neck is not fast at all. Sounds terrible with a capo!!!

You can play actual music on it I guess though it leans toward the toy side. I’ve learned classical, folk, and rock music on it. I’ve played stuff by Dylan, James Taylor, and Phish on it but it just doesn’t sound professional. Now I play a Gibson SG, thank goodness.

Recommended: No.
Rating: 2 / 5
TIRSDAG October 15, 2009 at 8:10 pm: Title: “First Act Discovery FG130 *Student* Acoustic Guitar”

“Product Description:

The First Act Student Acoustic guitar is designed especially for children to learn and grow on. Its steel reinforced neck prevents warping, twisting and snapping and also allows the neck to be thinner which makes the guitar easier to hold for a child’s smaller hand.”

Perhaps it is the product manufacturer’s choice of wording that understandably angers purchasers when they subsequently discover that this item does not meet with that description.

I would not expect “a toy” if the manufacturer described the product as a “Student Acoustic Guitar”…”designed especially for children to learn and grow on.”

As for “its steel reinforced neck prevents warping, twisting and snapping”: sounds like that descriptor is in direct opposition to users’ experiences.

Based on some of the claims, perhaps Amazon should pair this First Act guitar with a First Aid kit.

I will concede potential purchasers should consider the price point for an item of this nature for which this item clearly demonstrates its potential or lack there of. Anyone interested in providing their child with exposure to positive musical experiences from a very young age should consider the quality of such as much as their pocketbook will allow.

Would you settle for a bargain alphabet teaching toy that claimed to prepare your child for kindergarden while only containing 17 letters? Those who compromise by posturing with “It’s just a toy” might consider that very attitude compromises us all and permits sub-standard quality to pass the sniff-test and subvert the standards for everyone!

The customers that have stood up and pointed out the obvious discrepancies between the description and the actual product should be praised for demanding accuracy in advertising.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anonymous October 15, 2009 at 10:06 pm: This is a HORRIBLE instrument. I should say “toy”. Don’t buy it! Save up your money a little for a better one! Its horrible. Thats all there is to say.
Rating: 1 / 5
Briggs October 16, 2009 at 12:38 am: I read the reviews prior to mine and I must say, has anyone of you ever played a guitar? This is nothing more than a dumping of 30 skins. This guitar is incapable of producing a chord.I will say this, if your child is clueless, it’s perfect. Just teach him the smash… That sound will probably be musical…If you want your child to “think” they have a real guitar like daddy, buy it. In this case, the proverbial saying is most fitting, “you get what you pay for.”
Briggs…..
Rating: 1 / 5
Bharanidharan Natarajan October 16, 2009 at 1:19 am: I am amazed by the quality of the guitar. The product is extremely good. The service by amazon was ultimate. Thanks a lot Amazon.
Rating: 5 / 5