Just for background: I am not a professional musician, but I have been playing guitar and piano for over forty years.  I own several guitars.  I just purchased this for my nine-year-old daughter.  I had originally ordered a Luna Aurora Faerie guitar but sent it back.  The Luna was mostly plastic and assembled so poorly, that calling it anything but a toy would be untrue.  The Yamaha is another story.  It actually has a spruce top, wooden bridge and adjustable truss bar.  It is a real guitar in every sense of the word.  It is a true 3/4 scale guitar despite was others with little or no knowledge of guitars have posted.  The out-of-box action (string height) is good and can be played "as is."  For a better experience, it should be taken to a guitar shop and adjusted (set up) properly.  Action is adjusted by raising or lowering the neck or bridge nut, not by adjusting the truss rod - as many people attempt to do.