The Loog

Loog guitars are beautiful, finely-crafted instruments that have a very special feature - they only have three strings, rather than the six you’d normally find on a standard guitar. This is the key element that allows young students to comfortably hold the instrument. Child-sized guitars tend to be poorly made, and since they have all six strings the necks tend be too wide for little fingers.

The three strings on the Loog use the same tuning as the top three strings on a normal guitar, which makes the transition extremely easy when students are ready to graduate to the real thing. The skills and finger dexterity that students develop on the Loog will directly transfer to a full-sized guitar when they are ready to make the switch.

Make no mistake, the Loog is a real instrument that sounds amazing! Nothing like the toys you typically find for small children. On a Loog, young students can play real chords and melodies just as they would on a full-sized guitar, minus the frustration of dealing with 6 strings. Very quickly, a young Loog student will be playing and singing their favorite songs.

People sometimes ask about using a ukulele as a stepping stone towards playing a guitar. Ukuleles are wonderful in their own way, but actually have much less in common with a guitar. Ukuleles have their own unique tuning which does not translate easily to a guitar, as well as their own strings and their own distinct sound. Loog guitars, on the other hand, are designed to be the perfect starting point for young children who love the feel and sound of a real guitar.