Finding A Grown Up Guitar For Small Adult Hands

When I played guitar in the 50's and 60's, I wasgone up over the years and how much quality has
limited by having small hands. There were certainsuffered for a low end guitar. Even good used guitars
tunes I could just not stretch to play. In those dayswere few and far between. But, I kept looking.
a guitarist had to spend a couple thousand dollars forIn the process I discovered two manufacturers of
a custom made git with a short neck or resignshort neck guitars. I thought - "These must be for
themselves to a limited song list. That's not the casekids and girls." But, once I looked over the
today!specifications I realized they were not the guitars
Back in the day we had a pretty successful localsold by toy stores at all. These were versions of full
band. We played all the "sock hops" and even madesize guitars that are downsized for small adults with
a nice living playing road gigs in the tri-state area ofsmall hands and, yes, even for the aspiring lady
Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania under the namespickers and teens.
of "The Crazy Tones" and "The Challets". I mainlyMy number one concern, of course, was quality of
played rythym guitar and, on occasion, I playedcraftsmanship and sound quality. The price was a
keyboard on certain songs. One thing I never playedsurprise. More about that in a moment.
and never learned was lead guitar, the ultimate goalI looked at the Fender Squire and the Ibanez Mikro.
for all guitar players I think.The Fender, frankly, got poor ratings from musicians
Well, I retired recently and decided to revisit my loveand from newbies. The Ibanez, on the other hands,
of guitar playing. I began a search for a guitar thatscored a 90% satisfactory rating among the same
offered a nice price and good quality. I bid on a fewgroup. Based on that, I bought the Ibanez Mikro for
on eBay but quickly found the bids to be almost asunder $130.00 including Free Shipping and Handling. I
high as buying locally when you consider Shipping andhave not been disappointed.
Handling. I scoured local music stores but foundI now play tunes that were almost impossible and I
nothing that fit me comfortably, that was at a fairplay them comfortably. The quality? The sound? I
price. I had no idea how much guitar prices havegive this git a 100% positive rating!