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Spruce
May 1, 2009
I'm interested in buying a guitar and learning to play (and I read the OP), but I have really small hands. (My pinky is 1.75" long and my hand is 6" from wrist to the tip of my middle finger.) Several years ago I tried to play a friend's regular-sized guitar, and it was impossible for me to get those far strings with my left hand.

So today I went into a guitar store and the girl there recommended I try a baby Taylor and baby Martin. For those two it seemed like I would be able to reach all the strings comfortably after some practice. They were ~$350, but I noticed that neither brand was listed in the OP where it talked about companies for good budget guitars. Do other companies make small less-expensive guitars, or is $350 a good price and those are my only options? I went to some of the websites of the companies listed in the OP, but each product list is full of cryptic letter/number names and I'm not really sure what characteristic I'm looking for beyond "pretty small." And I haven't been very successful at finding overall length when I look at individual models, which makes it hard to determine smallness.

So here are my questions:
Is there a generic term for little guitars like that?
Do the less-expensive companies have little ones like that, or is it just those two?
Is the "baby Martin" the same as the "little Martin?"

Thanks!

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