In search of the proper present for the budding guitarist in your life? Loog Guitars has teamed up with Sanrio on a brand new assortment of kid-sized Howdy Kitty guitars designed to assist rookies choose up the guitar – and to make first riffs look ridiculously lovely.

The brand new Loog × Sanrio collaboration centres on a trio of compact, beginner-focused devices: a mini three-string model of the cult favorite Howdy Kitty Strat, full with pickup and jack and two Loog Mini Acoustics in pink and white, every wearing Howdy Kitty art work.

Each instrument additionally comes shipped with instructional flashcards and entry to Loog’s studying app, giving younger learners all the pieces they should flip curiosity into precise chord progress.

“Cute, vibrant, and completely beginner-friendly, these guitars are the last word first-instrument present for teenagers able to strum their very first songs!” says Loog.

The discharge follows Fender’s personal Howdy Kitty Stratocaster reissue final 12 months, launched in celebration of the character’s fiftieth anniversary. That drop reignited the frenzy surrounding one in every of Fender’s most sudden cult hits.

Initially launched in 2006 because the Squier Howdy Kitty Stratocaster, the mannequin went largely below the radar at first, till YouTuber TheDooo started that includes it in viral Omegle jam movies within the late 2010s. In accordance with Reverb, searches for the six-string skyrocketed, and resale costs adopted swimsuit, leaping from round $275 to a mean of $700 – a 254 % enhance.

Fender’s 2024 relaunch supplied two variations: the Squier Restricted Version Howdy Kitty Stratocaster priced at $499, and the premium Made in Japan Fender Restricted Version Howdy Kitty Stratocaster, unique to Tokyo’s flagship retailer and priced round $2,145.

Now, Loog’s partnership with Sanrio brings that very same pop-culture vitality to a youthful viewers, buying and selling full-scale nostalgia for smaller frets and beginner-friendly enjoyable. With the Howdy Kitty craze alive and effectively, these new Loog guitars would possibly simply encourage the subsequent era of gamers (or collectors) one lovely riff at a time.

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