Gio GRGM21M - Blue Burst

Best guitar for it's price range. I fell in love with this guitar. Everything feels premium quality. The built is just top notch! Even the strings that it comes with sound great. The action is perfection, the finish has had no issues after years, & the size makes it so fun to play. It also holds a tune for a long time! Thanks Ibanez for keeping great guitars affordable. I wish you'd make every kind of instrument!

I had to make some tweaks to it, but for the price, it’s priceless. It stays in tune even though my son plays it really hard, and the intonation isn’t too bad. Also, the shorter 22” scale makes it easier for my 9-year-old to play. Lastly, the action is really good as well, again making it easy for a beginner to play. All in all, it’s a perfect starter guitar for kids.

So I got it 1/13/21 which is today. I restrung it with ernie ball regular slinky, tuned it, adjusted the nut and set the bridge. Trust me you will have too or the strings will rattle on the frets! Needs serious adjusting out of the box. the left handed model of the ibanez gio micro guitar is decent. Has dual humbucker pickups with an adjustable nut and 5 way selector. Its very small especially for a small person! I'm 5 foot 5 inches and have small to medium sized hands and this guitar is uncomfortably small. The only reason I bought this is because its the only left handed ibanez I can find on Amazon. I prefer ibanez over any brand its my personal preference. Overall I think I can adapt to the size of the guitar and retrain my fingers to be able to play this guitar but it will take time. I give it a 4.3/5 stars.

I'm a beginner with small hands (cannot hold down an F bar on a full size) but now I can play all the bar chords on this guitar! I bought a 3/4 Fender Squier Mini Strat for my first guitar since everyone said to get a Fender Squier and I thought it was okay, but I bought this one afterwards and now I don't pick up my Fender anymore. The sound quality seems much better, stays in tune better, and overall feels and sounds much more legit. It's also slightly heavier than the Fender and the back of the neck is slightly slimmer than the Fender, so the Ibanez feels better in my hands. Also, in case no one tells you: the black night guitar is not solid black, it's glittery. You can see it in some of the customer photos when the light is at the right angle. I usually hate glitter but I like and justify it since it's REALLY subtle and looks like the night sky with stars (hence the name I guess). I also took it to a music shop and paid $25 to get it touched up where needed since I have no idea what I'm doing, and it sounds great. LOCKING TUNERS: If this will be your main guitar then perhaps it would be worth investing in locking tuners to help with the tuning issue, such as Hipshot Grip Lock tuners with 10mm peg holes. Hipshot has a universal mounting plate so screws aren't an issue and you can just drop these right in with no drilling, but otherwise make sure you get one that fits from different brands. Hipshot locking tuners are ~$130 on their website but ~$70-80 on Ebay. Locking tuners also make string changing super easy.

I've played the same Fender USA strat since 2011, and I've played it a lot. It's the first thing I would grab if my house was on fire. With that said, I didn't really want anything to replace it, but I wanted something smaller and easier to play in the bedroom and other places that make a smaller form a little more bearable (makes it so much easier to get into those port-o-potties). Anyway, it IS much easier to play in more cramped spaces, BUT, holy crap is this thing fun to play. And it plays GREAT. The feel of it is awesome. The only downsides I have, which aren't enough to care about for me for this guitar, are the neck width (a little small for my hands, but I have big hands), and maybe the dead, bland feel of the wood in this guitar. It's still worth the money, but there's a way that good wood sounds when a guitar vibrates, and this once definitely has zero of that. But that isn't going to affect playability or how it sounds to a degree. And for the money, it's just fine. In fact that's maybe not even fair to gripe about at all with a guitar this cheap. ALL new guitars need a proper setup. It also takes a few hours of playing to get it broken in a little bit. I highly suggest buffing out/polishing the frets (this took the most time, but it made the most difference for me), NEW STRINGS, adjust pickups, adjust truss rod. Besides the fret buffing, bridge pickup being too low, and a little neck relief added, mine was actually in great shape. I also adjusted the bridge saddles a bit to match the radius of the fret board. I am only saying all of the setup stuff because I am seeing a lot of negative comments about this guitar being junk because it plays like crap. It WILL play like crap out of the box. You have to do more than tune it... It's a music instrument. It desperately needs intonation and new strings. Ibanez did this at the factory but that was in China, and it happened many months before it showed up in your hands. It's easy to do, and it will get this guitar up to its potential. I can't believe the build quality of this thing for 150 bucks. I highly recommend it!

I’ve had guitars for decades of a range of qualities. Got this for my son (and for me to have a little fun too!) and he loves it. It’s a proper guitar in a tiny size. Out of the box the setup was pretty much ready to go - just did minimal adjustments (barely needed to touch the intonation, but did raise the action on a couple of string that were fretting in a few spots Stays in tune very well, and sounds great. Obviously, you don’t get as great sustain but, for the price this is a great piece of kit. Looks great too

This guitar is solid, and the neck is extremely easy to play. I feel empowered, because I can reach the low E string. As an adult with short fingers and a smaller palm size, I had to do my research. This guitar fit the bill. It looks like an instrument made for adults that children can use. Not the other way around. I left the protective plastic on the face of the instrument, so it looks a bit off in the picture. It's not in the way, so I left it for now. I did remove the protective plastic from the pickups. I purchased this from Cosmo Music, and it arrived with a grantee that it works and was set up. It was ready to play on arrival. They also packaged it securely using a second box filled with bubble wrap. The courier crushed the outer box, but the guitar and it's box were in perfect condition.

Good delivery time, no problem with the guitar at all… All in good shape. Well done.

Me gustó todo. La relación calidad/precio es buena.

Ví algún video en el que decían que esta guitarra 3/4 servía también para adultos. No es verdad. Yo tengo unas manos de tamaño normal y los trastes son demasiado pequeños. Por eso no la recomiendo en absoluto para personas adultas. Por otro lado, para niños es perfecta, muy bonita y no suena nada mal.