Suzuki QC1 Q Chord Digital Sound Guitar, Purple

very good

My husband bought this for me, as I have very arthritic hands and was really missing being able to play music and sing. This fun instrument is fully portable as it runs on batteries as well as mains, is very light and easy to hold either in the arms or on the lap, it's only 19 inches long and weighs only five pounds. It can play 84 chords and the strum plate is sensitive enough for my wonky hands to use. With 100 voices, a rhythm section and automatic accompaniments, it sounds surprisingly good, it also is able to be used with headphones, though you'll need an adaptor for a larger jack, and to be plugged into a stereo speaker. It also has midi capabilities. You can use it to accompany yourself when singing, or with the addition of the QCards, song cartridges of tunes arranged for the QChord, you can play as if you're part of a band, which is a lot of fun. I absolutely love this thing to bits. If I have one tiny comment I would say that it's a product of its time, the headphone and speaker jack needs updating, it needs better marketing and promoting, so many of the people I've talked to have never even heard of it, and we need a lot, lot more song cartridges for it. But I don't know of anymore fully portable electronic instruments that literally anyone could play. I'd thoroughly recommend it.

I have wanted one of these for ages, it Has power but no sound at all. Which is really disappointing. I'm hoping I have just missed something so I don't have to return it but it's not looking good right now. Batteries were also meant to be included but we're missing