abrogard

There's a good looking and well made wooden guitar in a toy shop I'd like to get for my 6 year old. He'd like something and of course he can't get his hands around a full size or anything like it.

So this would be good. But it is only about 0.5metre, from head to bottom.

The strings wouldn't be much longer than ukelele strings.

So I suddenly thought how would I tune it? What would I tune it to? If it is only going to tune as high as a ukelele or thereabouts it'd be pointless having a guitar looking thing that sounds like a uke. Might as well get a uke.

Or do such things tune quite successfully and have a decent sound?

Or are they just a silly trap?

I'm not even sure if it is nylon strung or steel. It was wrapped in plastic which I couldn't open and would you believe I peered and fingered but I still couldn't make it out. Very cheap product. Chinese. No literature with it at all. But well made out of fine looking wood. Be a nice thing to have if it did have at least some merit as an instrument, not a joke.

Anyone had experience with such things? or got a scientific enough background or general music instrument knowledge or something enough to advise me on this?

regards,

ab