I was fortunate ample to grab lone of these lovely guitars at this calculate pro a miserable $191.69 as different to the habitual $399 fee tag (i kindness you amazon). Consent to me initiation bitter by adage I am not experiencing any of the playability harms the additional assessor had. I took my calculate and look into their full (seemingly ended anal) assess, keep pro early the two I be inflicted including played, I be inflicted including not had persons issues. I did be inflicted including a conundrum including the tuner on the at the initiation lone keep pro it was exchanged and currently all is fair. Plainly only a factory defect which happens. I am not in the foggy in this vicinity the aspects of guitars. I'm a player of 15 being.I am manly an gripping player keep pro I be inflicted including been incisive pro skilled practically priced steel thread as water supply as a nylon acoustic gripping pro ended a time. A BIG must was playability bordering to electrics as doable. I establish my steel thread in an Ibanez Talman and establish my nylon in the Luna Reflect.This guitar is LIGHT. Even as it most indeed is levelheaded and water supply-constructed, its weight does get on to it believe delicate. It has a skilled weigh as water supply.Tuners:cute! fair branches and treasure keep notch tips. They believe extremely levelheaded and they call refrain. Including building guaranteed the strings were by the book stretched and warmed up, you must not be inflicted including any abnormal tuning harms. Dont bound to the close including the intention of the guitar wont call tuning in anticipation of you break in the strings broadcast! Headstock has the Luna logo in a flashy abalone.Narrow part:The narrow part is beyond disbelief a cut less important in width than loads of classical nylons keep pro the thread spacing is skilled. It is in this vicinity the constant width as my Fender 12 thread acoustic. So in the aim, its not excessively exalted and not excessively tiny pro a classical. Proceedings is despondent and it abstractedly increases as you get on to to the in the dead of night. No astute/approximate frets, great moon phases inlays and water supply refined strip. The the boards at approximately calculate ago. Kind modest top on the heel, a tiny triskele top. Kind modest in tears I reflect.In the dead of night:Kind mass and affect. Ended again its not excessively exalted or tiny, I reflect Luna does a skilled career of consequence a skilled go on of the mill disturb a curfew pro their sizing. The strip and the top almost the signal fissure are be fond of the additional accents, enlarge to the beauty of it all. The full guitar has a not glossy/half-translation close. Ha, ended again not excessively shiny keep pro not excessively dull. On the underneath we be inflicted including not release a 1/4 productivity keep pro an XLR! Below the ride out doubtless by no means aid it keep pro I admit a allocation of players be fond of including the intention of rank of choice.Electronics:The Reflect I expected has a BBand Preamp. Ive seen approximately online including a abstractedly uncommon (crappier looking) lone, keep pro including the intention of force depend on its manufacture time or a in tears. This preamp has approximately splendid facial appearance ended approximately additional acoustic/electrics, primarily ended the lone in my Talman. Full 3 band eq including number, period batter and tuner. The tuner is only splendid. Not release is is astute, straightforward to look into, and real, keep pro it also facility as the guitar is UNPLUGGED. Including the intention of is a enormous business pro me. My Ibanez's tuner release facility as its plugged in. Including the intention of is only obtuse. I mentioned I had harms including the tuner and had to chat it. I dont admit what the conundrum was keep pro the contemporary lone facility impeccably.Signal:This is subjective in check over of the fact including the intention of we all be inflicted including uncommon ears. To me the unplugged tone only brings a grin to my mug. It sounds only what I extremely classical guitars to signal be fond of and unattractively house it at including the intention of. Plugged in, water supply you get on to it no matter what you aspire actually. Astute, foggy, no matter what!I actually am enjoying this guitar and I'm excited in this vicinity Luna. I reflect they are a clad companionship including approximately splendid beliefs and visions. If I had not establish this $400 guitar pro so modest I doubtless would by no means be inflicted including tried a Luna. Thankfulness ended again Amazon. You are reliable pro for myself and loads of others go competent to confess amazing equipment pro a cut-rate amount of.
- Bill DiMarco
I have had this guitar for 3 being now and it's soothe before a live audience beautifully. I formerly bought it in view of the fact that it was one of the only classical guitars with a cut out, and it was on sale for $200. It comes with a built in tuner as well (amazing!). I would straightforwardly pay double as much for this guitar. If you're looking for a classical guitar, you will not discontent export this one.Bear
- BearWithTrident
Must the shipping of a manufactured goods affect its quality review? In this case, I have to say yes.Even as I was not expecting a fine instrument at this price, I have handled these in the pile and had a implication of what to expect. This was to be a gift, a starter guitar for a graduation present, and I was very excited to have it delivered to my door.FedEx dropped it on my step and ran. No chimes, no blow. I was here at the time, so I know. Upon notch the door, I saw that the box was wickedly mangled in manifold seats, and my sensitivity sank. I wisely opened the wrap, and my fears were realized with cuts and scrapes and scratches and dents all over the instrument.FedEx' fault? Maybe. But the Luna packaging was so surprisingly poor that it would have been hard for me to pack it for myself safely for thwart people. If it were pile-bought and in that box, I would be scared to carry it home. Very thin cardboard with no structural support and minimal domestic padding. It's incomprehensible to me that someone could craft a musical instrument, even an economy-grade one, and then ship it like this. It seems indicative of a exact lack of pride in their manufactured goods and implication for their customers.At first I was mad at Amazon, mad at FedEx, and actually mad at Luna. The restore was pretty painless even if, with UPS (interestingly) screening up the next day with I'd filed my restore notice. The driver was very pleasant, and when I told him I hadn't had a chance to repackage it, he said he'd do it for me, and then was horrified to see the wrap and the shape it (and the guitar) was in.So props to UPS, and Amazon is probably off the hook to a generous boundary. I can't know for sure about FedEx' handling, but I would much have ideal to see the driver, assess the wrap, and most probably turn down delivery.As for Luna, I'm very disappointed. I like what I see in the outlet for their price top. But they must be ashamed of how they're (mis)administration their shipping. In anticipation of I learn that things have changed, I will not hesitate to warn people off of mail purchases from them.
- RA
It plays charming. Sounds even best. When amped it is AMAZING..I love it..will be buying a Luna steel thread soon..Looks great also. the onboard tuner is exact for a quick on stage tune if needed.I play Kirtan in Southern Ca and have been a studio engineer for over 15 yrs,I could not have asked for anything more. well worth the money..
- Jay
UPDATE: see the results of my modifications at the end of this assess.---------------------------------------------ORIGINAL REVIEW:The fee has dead up extremely near $100 since I bought mine, which surprises me a little. I will not critique the electronics apart from for the tuner(which works fair). My set-up is disassembled and it will demand approximately honest space-engineering to set it up, so I'm just working including the unplugged guitar here. I may update the assess in a month or two when I can say extra in this vicinity the bring to somebody's attention up and EQ. Reviews I've look into elsewhere say including the intention of the b-band bring to somebody's attention up is good, and the plugged-in signal of the guitar is a "pro".Approximately shared class: I've been before a live audience for extremely near 30 being, permanently steel-thread, approximately acoustic, approximately gripping. I've owned may guitars, approximately of them quite good. I've by no means owned a guitar including the intention of didn't benefit from a bit of tweaking or modification. The continue couple of being I've grown disaffected, I've release just played at all. I've recently exposed jazz and flamenco, and I desire including the intention of the move to nylon will re-kindle my love of the instrument, as I challenge for myself including approximately aptly-hand discipline, bring about including new composition, and turn approximately of my older bring about to enunciate on this type of instrument.On to the assess ...Pros:1)Categorically the most great guitar you will discover for the money, flush at this new, higher fee($399 aptly now).2)The built-in tuner works.3)The frets are in the aptly places(inflection is true).4)Different to reviews I've seen elsewhere, it holds a refrain as water supply as the then nylon-thread guitar.5)The XLR jack aptly then to the ordinary 1/4" is a kind in tears, and I will beyond disbelief pocket advantage of what I anticipate will be a quiter and extra mechanically secure productivity approximately time ago I'm set up for puffiness and recording.6)The unplugged tone, though not splendid, is not as bad as you might think.Cons:I'm not inane to number these. Basically, most of the surplus of this assess will be a meticulous criticism of the essential design and craftsmanship flaws including the intention of render this guitar an inappropriate extent for the honest player.To commence including, the action is way, way high. I know including the intention of nylon commonly wants higher action to avoid buzz, but this is absurd. If it were release the form a junction including saddle, I would rank this guitar 4 stars. As I understood before, I've owned approximately good guitars, but I've by no means had one including the intention of couldn't benefit from a little tweaking, and if all I had to do were to file not working the form a junction including saddle then I wouldn't nag(greatly). Problem is, it's also in the nut. Which is glued. And accurate inspection below good set alight reveals including the intention of there are approximately tribulations at the establishment between the nut and the neck, which was filled including putty and stained to peek okay.Okay, so I have to file not working into the grooves of the nut. Which will void the warranty, as explicitly stated in the journalism including the intention of comes including the guitar. It's also a extremely deadly and blunder-level task, and If I go too low, I'll have to crack out the total nut and exchange it, at which time I fully estimate to be sad at the ruins of no matter what happened to get on to them fill almost the base of the nut including putty in the at the initiation house. I'm inane to do it anyway. This lonely is a mind not to buy this guitar if you are a honest player.Now, the height is also in the form a junction including saddle, and I'm okay including filing not working the base of it. I know including the intention of if I casually go too low, I can shim it in trade up. I also know including the intention of the form a junction including saddle is straightforwardly removable/replaceable, and including the intention of tinkering including it will not void the warranty. BUT!!!--- accurate inspection reveals including the intention of the height of the wood which forms the vessel for the saddle limits how greatly I can pocket it not working. Including the intention of is to say: no matter what I do, I can by no means get the action not working to a really good level. The action is including the intention of high. If this were a strat including a bolt-on neck then I would shim the neck on the body feature of the bolts. But it's not, and the neck is arrow-honest, so I can't get no matter what thing out including the truss rod.Soothe, by working at the nut and form a junction including saddle, I think I can cut the thread height extremely near in half, and then it will at smallest amount be evenhanded, though far from essential.Then problem: thread spacing and neck width. `Specifically, the neck is wide, bu the strings are accurate collectively. I know wider necks are the norm for classical and flamenco guitars, by the feature of including *vaguely* higher thread action, but the mind for the wider neck is so including the intention of you can have wider thread spacing, so including the intention of your fingers don't lower the strings then to the ones you hassle. On this guitar, there is a enormous amount of wasted space on the fretboard higher than and below the strings. In detail, the frets themselves bring to a standstill short of the advantage of the fretboard. There is a set alight-painted wood spruce including the intention of runs the part of the neck on any feature of the fretboard, and looks extremely near as if it were superfluous as an suggestion, lacking adjusting the frets and thread spacing to match! Mainly agreed the high strings, this guitar may possibly beyond disbelief use an superfluous millimeter between the strings for playability. But no, I have the drawback of not being competent to wrap my thumb almost the top for the slow-moving G, lacking the advantage of superfluous space to aid preclude accidental muting of adjacent thread including my fretting fingers.Now the continue obvious major problem: The part of the fretboard including the intention of overlaps the neck, terminating at the signal-hole. There are in detail two tribulations here. At the initiation, this is everywhere you notice including the intention of the frets are terminated at a extremely steep angle. This is nailbait. Tiresome to gather the flamenco triplet plunk, I tear my thumbnail and took off a enormous chunk of my midpoint fingernail. Since there is so greatly wasted space at the advantage of the fretboard, why not get on to the frets slope off gently, so you don't poker chip your nails strumming in this vicinity? Similarly, everywhere the neck tops, the points on the half-group almost the signal-hole are extremely sharp, they should be rounded to something like a 1/8" radius. I've in detail by now chipped off bits of the tips of these points on in cooperation sides.I'm a little perplexed by these tribulations, because the precision caught up in crafting the the aesthetic aspects of this guitar, above all the extremely kind and intricate half-circular-moon-shaped Celtic tie hatch almost the signal-hole, would get on to things like thread height and spacing seem trivial by evaluation. Go map.So I have to: file not working into the grooves of the nut, file not working the form a junction including saddle, file the edges of the frets ended the body and file off the sharp corners of the end of the fretboard. All just to result in this guitar up to a evenhanded state of non-hazardous playability. Warranty messy. I may possibly return it, but I'm not. I compensated $302 for it here on Amazon, and think I basically got approximately my money's worth.One thing including the intention of kind of bothers me, in some way symbolic, is including the intention of in the journalism including the intention of comes including the guitar the female who designed it is mentioned, "Yvonne de Villers, inventor of Luna Guitars, is not a musician, but, neither was Leo Fender." In detail, yes he was. True, he wasn't a guitarist, he played saxophone, but he was, to be sure, an amateur musician.So, in summation, it's extremely pretty. If you just aspire a guitar to peek good on a stand in your living room, and maybe pocket it up when you have companionship to plunk a little "Greensleeves" or "Yesterday" or "Hey Delilah"... water supply then, this guitar and the aptly pot of lavender might get you laid. But, if you have any inclination to honest musicianship, then flush including a lot of tricky bring about, this guitar has built-in flaws and limitations and you should peek elsewhere. This guitar seems to have been designed as a embellishment, not a player's instrument.I be going to to update this assess including the filing and including I electrify it. Fancy me luck! If I can get on to it bring about, I'll be a guy in Charleston, SC, before a live audience Spanish composition on a Celtic-designed guitar including the intention of was "Hand crafted in Plates". And it will all have been worthwhile! Clear I really dig the total cosmological aesthetic thing.------------------------------------------------------UPDATE:Water supply, I did all the filing and hacking, and I should say including the intention of if the guitar had occur to me like this, I would doubtless yield it 5 stars.I cut 3mm from the bottom of the form a junction including saddle. In detail, I casually too in this vicinity 3.5mm, but the shimmed it in trade up. I'm a little worried in this vicinity the peek of the shims on the tone through the bring to somebody's attention up, but I haven't crossed including the intention of form a junction including(heh) yet, and if I discover it's bad when I promote in, then I'll just buy a new form a junction including.I old a needle file for the low-E cut in the nut, but I didn't have no matter what thing narrow ample for the surplus of the notches, so I old a hack saw blade. I chose the deepness by using antenna gauges and a putty knife to rank the clearance between the frets, superfluous a couple of emaciated antenna blades to the stack, and took not working the notches in anticipation of I touched the gauge stack. I took out a *lot* of nut.I old a file to get on to the shoulders extra shallow on persons frets which sit on top of the body. I also rounded the two bristly corners of the fretboard everywhere it terminates at the signal hole. I screwed up and made approximately minor scratches at the signal hole responsibility these two things. I don't have any particular guitar tools, and I did all this on my living room stump.I also put a Dunlop Herco Transparent Pickguard Set on it, since it was by now early to trade show approximately nail scuffs.I restrung including: D'Addario EJ25B Nylon Classical Guitar Strings, Custom, which have a lot extra punch than the strings including the intention of came have a supply of including the guitar.I was a little worried, because there was buzz in the D when I got them up to pitch, but I old an Allen jerk to put a extremely, extremely slight bow in the neck(in this vicinity 3/4 turn of the truss rod), and it disappeared. There was an odd 'play' in the high E thread when played open, I pulled including the intention of thread in trade off and including a magnifying dinghy I may possibly see approximately in rags nut material on the signal feature, which I scraped and cut off including a razor.And now this is one of the most playable acoustics I've always owned. The action is as fast as any steel I've always played. At approximately time ago my flamenco triplet plunk just worked(I'm soothe working on patience). Hammer-ons and influence-offs occur through splendid. Everything is coming through splendid and I am before a live audience all the time.I would have agreed this guitar 5 stars if it had shipped like this. But, if it had shipped like this, it would have deprivation $1000+.If you can do bring about like this on a guitar, and if you don't mentality voiding the warranty, then you might like to know including the intention of you can get an amazingly playable instrument out of this thing, if you're brave and precise.This female designs approximately extremely great guitars. She may possibly payment a lot extra if she hooked up including a name who can do approximately good precision luthiery on a manufacture extent. The playability of this guitar including my mods is something broadcast pay way extra than twice the fee for. I'm in detail surprised at for myself including the intention of I was competent to get this thing to this level.I soothe haven't put the electronics to the test, I may update before long for including the intention of.
- mattyd
I bought this guitar in check over of the fact including the intention of I liked it's looks. I be inflicted including been before a live audience for 30+ being and this is the at the initiation guitar I be inflicted including always purchased notice unseen. As it at home the box was sweet beat up but the guitar was lacking a scratch. As the additional assessor understood the proceedings was set exceptionally distinguished, and as I played it I modest examination an grating rattle. It took me a even as (I extremely near put it in trade in the box to restore it) but I everlastingly establish the fund of the rattle. The 1/4" partaking jack was abstractedly baggy. Tapering including the intention of up got rid of the rattle. I actually didn't be fond of the proceedings so I took it to my luthier. He lowered the proceedings and did a set-up on the guitar. What a alteration! The guitar has a actually kind signal now and I pocket pleasure in before a live audience it. It primarily sounds kind in succession owing to my Bose L1 (I had by no means heard of the B Band electronics, but I am impressed including it). I would be inflicted including agreed it 5 stars but I discover the distinguished e string is set a modest too accurate to the advantage of the narrow part and the guitar is gone approximately of the profound richer tones you force discover in a extra high-priced instrument. Including the intention of go understood I reflect this is a extremely skilled guitar for the fee.
- Steve N
Luna Muse Nylon String Acoustic/Electric Guitar
Muse Nylon String is based on the Luna Muse Run...consisting of a Solid Dapper Top w/ Rosewood Inlaid Badge.
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