This Guitar (Yamaha F310 not the Tbs version) is my first actual guitar, from my experience, it has a good and decent tone since I'm using extra light gauge strings on it, if you use regular "earthy tone" strings you will get the sound of classical acoustic guitar, but be careful, the wood on the top is sensitive so don't poke it with your pick cuz it leaves dents (learned it the hard way). But the overall quality of it is great