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Dean Playmate 1/2 Size Mini Acoustic | 
 enlarge | Brand: Dean Guitars
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $56.00
Buy New: $29.90
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 136
Color: Gloss Natural
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 31 x 12.5 x 3.9
The Dean Playmate JT Junior Kids Acoustic Guitar Feature: Full Display Color Box, 1/2 Size Student Steel String Acoustic, Set Neck, Chrome Hardware, Signature Dean Bridge, Chrome Tuners, Dot Inlays, 18 Frets.
MPN: PLAYJTJ
Model: PLAYJTJ
UPC: 819998003081
EAN: 0819998003081
ASIN: B0002F5EKE
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW JTJ 1/2 SIZE STEEL STRING ACOUSTIC GUITAR
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| Features:
| • | 1/2 Size Student Steel String Acoustic | | • | Set Neck | | • | Chrome Hardware | | • | 18 Frets | | • | Signature Dean Bridge |
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Product Description
The Dean Playmate JT Junior is the perfect acoustic guitar for the beginning child thanks to the 1/2 size body. Features set neck construction, chrome hardware, mahogany neck and an 18-fret Rosewood fingerboard. Natural finish. Case not included.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dean should be ashamed. They knew better and sold garbage anyway. June 19, 2008
D. Reinstein (Fairfax, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having been a picker and strummer of six and twelve stringed guitars for nearly 45 years, I found myself offended by the unadvertised aspects of this 'name brand' child's guitar. Nowhere in the advertising does it mention that it simply cannot be tuned to standard concert tuning (a reality quickly admitted by Dean staff when asked,) rendering it useless as a teaching instrument. It must be tuned at least one full note higher and regular concert tuning end even at that, the frets are not accurately enough placed to get consistent sounds (either single notes or chords) from it.
I expected that for under $40., I would have to tune and re-tune it. What I had no cause to expect was that it was physically impossible to tune it correctly in the first place. According to Dean's "Armadillo Customer Service Manager," Brad Mader who responded to some comments he saw about this and sent me a personal email, "Unfortunately due to the size of the guitar & price point, the guitar has to be tuned that way.If you need an acoustic for standard tuning, I would suggest a full size acoustic, something from our Exotic line will work Just fine."
I didn't expect a quality instrument for this little - I am not a fool - But from a company with the reputation and product line of Dean Guitars, I did expect a tunable and playable beginning guitar. The JTJ is simply neither.
As other reviewers have suggested, spend $100. or so and get a reasonable sound and better designed and built guitar. Nothing is more discouraging to any beginning player of any age than an instrument that is simply not designed or built to sound right in the first place.
 Good for beginner/child, horrible strings April 4, 2006
J. Marx (Phoenix, AZ USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This guitar is great for the price. Sure, it doesn't hold its tune very well, but it works well for my young child. The strings that came on it were absolutely horrible - looked like they'd been doused with water and left out in the sun to dry. Changing the strings made a huge difference in sound quality.
Just a bit more than a toy. February 21, 2005
Elliot Spendhermoney (Connecticut USA)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
The main points for me in deciding to buy this little guitar were the cheap price and the affiliation with Dean Guitars. As a long-time guitar player, it can be a lot of fun to play a little guitar in places a full-size guitar won't work, like in the car. I believe an experienced player will get more out of this than a beginner. Although the quality of this guitar is higher than a toy guitar you find at retail toy stores, it still leaves much to be desired in terms of easy playability. Even with a zero fret, the action on this guitar was way too high. The result was that it was hard to play and hard to tune because the intonation was off. These are the least desireable things for a good beginners guitar. What I did was to file down the grooves in the bridge to lower the action. I also put new strings on the guitar--light gauge because the guitar sounds best tuned to A, in otherwise standard tuning. With these changes, it's become a fun guitar to play. For under $30, I wasn't disappointed by the plastic fretboard, painted-on binding or cheap tuners. The finish is nice and the bridge is distinctive. So, I'd say it's a good toy for an experienced guitarist but a bad guitar for a beginner.
 It looks like a guitar, sounds like a... February 11, 2005
Travis A. S. Janeway (Bellingham, WA)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
It arived safely (packed so well it would probably survive a plane crash) but the strings were very coroded. The tuners are decent (for a very inexpensive guitar) but once tuned all cords sounded off key. Not playable if you can hear. However if deaf it might be quite fun. The plastic fingerboard, painted binding, and plastic bridge are disapointing, but when this guitar makes it to my chop shop, the bridge pins and tuners might be usefull on another gutar. If you buy it for a child, you won't have to wory about teaching them how to tune. It will make little difference.
you get what you pay for - change the strings February 11, 2005
Anon
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
For $25 you can't expect much, but this is a good guitar considering the price. It was packed very well, but the strings that came with it were awful - they are difficult (if not impossible) to tune correctly, and they were very corroded when I received it.
The solution was very simple - I bought a new set of strings for a regular guitar. Instead of tuning it like a standard guitar, tune it a fourth or a major third above standard tuning. This is perfect for the size of the guitar, and it sounds great. Remember to use very low gauge strings.
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