This is a great beginner ukulele, I have bought several for kids ages 7 and up and may end up buying one for myself for traveling/camping. It stands up to inadvertent knocks and bumps. The strings take a while to break in so initially you will have to keep tightening them to stay in tune, but be patient! Once they are broken in the uke will stay in tune and play beautifully. In my opinion this is the best plastic uke for the money. It's much more than a toy, it's a decent musical instrument.

What a cool uke! I bought this for my 16 month old grand child to strum and slap on instead of my wooden ukuleles. I considered the cheaper plastic ones, but this one came with Aquila strings plus the colorful finger markings for first position chords, and it appears to be of pretty good quality for plastic. It seems like a perfect uke for my grand child to grown into an young beginner uke player. I like it so much that I'm considering purchasing one to take backpacking. For me, It would be a lot less worry to take a good quality plastic uke instead of my expensive KoAloha one.

I'm sort of addicted to giving these aways as gifts- they're easily the best plastic ukes I've ever played on... I mean they don't really compare to a wooden instrument tone-wise, but they sound different in a good way. The single notes and chords sound a bit sweeter. It's a strange tone to come out of so small an instrument.. The "chuck" (percussive sound of the strings as they sound when muted by one or more hands) of the instrument is pretty awful- No vibrancy to the high end to speak of- but the tradeoff is that nice mellow round tone for chords and notes. They almost sound more like an alto than a soprano, to my ear. If I had to focus on one thing to gripe about, it'd be the inconsistency of the build, insofar as I've played three of these now and the action has been different on all three.. One played pretty decently well- the other two were a bit higher- there really is no remedy for the action being too high on such an instrument. Your'e kind of just stuck with it. But all of them I played were playable and sounded decent (as I mentioned, better than any other plastic I've played). Further up on the neck the intonation won't necessarily be great, but what do you want for 40 bucks? It's a waterproof uke, made of plastic, in bright colours, nearly indestructible. I'd probably buy one just to practice uke tricks on- or heck, get three and juggle em ..

It a great uke. It is surprisingly really loud which is good if you like to be loud. The strings are very good and with about two days of non stop playing it has stayed in tune pretty well. It also glows in the dark! For it's price I would say it is very good quality and is worth the buy :)

So I bought a really nice soprano butterfly wood ukulele and was always worried about bringing it with me to the beach and whatnot. This is perfect for bringing with you anywhere. I haven't tuned it in quite some time and it still sounds good. Not that loud, but definitely loud enough if you're playing it at the beach or around a campfire or something along those lines. I've played it in the shower without any worries (just because I wanted to tested out the waterproof abilities, lol). Also, I've taken it kayaking and it's pretty cool to just hang out in a kayak jamming out on the water. 5 stars and well-deserved