it's actually very beautiful, I'm ashamed to keep giggling about it cz once I got it home and saw the price and product info on it and Amy's hubby explained to me what it's made of (maple, not veneer, and mother of pearl w abalone along the neck, etc etc), I realized Tony had wanted to be taken seriously at his store by donating a serious instrument . . I have zero idea how to even hold it correctly, I sit on the couch with it and touch it lightly all over and listen to it say whatever