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Our expert team has read thousands of product reviews and looked at product availability in Australia to put together this list of the best musical instruments you can buy in a variety of categories. Each guide has a more extensive list of products and more details about how the products were chosen.

Whether you're a total beginner who wants to pick up a new hobby, or an experienced musician who wants to step up your collection, we've done the research to find the best products for you.

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For the best overall acoustic guitar, we picked the Fender Malibu Classic. It has a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.

With a high-quality build and sleek maple binding, the Malibu Classic guitar features quarter sawn scalloped X bracing for resonance and an upgraded bone nut and saddle. The 6-inch line headstock amps up this model's vibe. It has a natural solid mahogany bodywork and a painted top that's solid Sitka spruce. Additionally, it includes a Fishman-design pickup/preamp system and comes with a warranty.

Whether you're a beginner or a pro player, you can't go wrong with a Fender acoustic guitar like the Malibu Classic. Customers said it is easy to use and produces a pleasant tone. Its low and mid ranges are also crisp and loud. Others reported that it is lightweight and has a sleek design that looks great when mounted. The build showcases the high-quality craftsmanship that Fender is known for. Several customers received guitars with cloudy paintwork around the headstock, but this seems to be a minor issue.

Zildjian is legendary among cymbal makers as a 400-year-old company with a reputation for quality, and the K Custom series lives up to that reputation. Sporting an average customer rating of 5 stars on the Amazon and Sweetwater Sound online storefronts, this cymbal set is popular with musicians, and is often called out for being perfect for studio recording.

The K Custom series combines the traditional hammering of the main line with modern hammering techniques, leaving the cymbals with both unique sound and aesthetics. Customers praise the K Custom series for its dark, rich sound across the range of finishes, which includes Dark, Hybrid, Special Dry and more. While the K Customs are designed for more subdued genres, customers say the range is surprisingly versatile across many genres.

For the best overall digital piano, we picked the Yamaha P125 Weighted Action Digital Piano, which has a rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon.

This fully weighted digital piano features 88 full-sized keys. It has a heavy GHS action in the low keys, while the high keys' action is lighter. Its CF sound engine reproduces crisp tones similar to the Yamaha 9 foot CFIIIS Concert Grand Piano. As well as a tempo ranging from 5 to 280, it has a built-in speaker and USB connection so you can connect your instrument to any audio software.

Customers gave positive feedback on the piano's sleek design, high-quality build and ease of use. It produces realistic sounds with superb key action. Users loved that it could be integrated with an iPad for convenience. Additionally, the piano comes with the Smart Pianist app, which works as a controller. It's the perfect size for small spaces as well. A con for buyers are the piano's plastic keys, which some found flimsy and a bit slippery.

Pearl is one of the most renowned musical instrument brands around and it is hard to go past the brand's flagship model the Roadshow RS525. Dozens of professional drum reviewers and hundreds of customers on Amazon praised this kit as the best available.

It features a large 22"×16" bass drum, 16"×16" floor tom, 12"×9" and 10"×8" toms, 5" snare drum and cymbal package. What sets it apart from other models is the 9-ply poplar shell with 1.2mm triple-flanged hoop.

We picked Fender's Player Telecaster Electric Guitar as the best overall option. It has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon.

The Player Telecaster features the bold style, feel and sound that made the brand famous. It features an alder body with a sleek gloss finish as well as a Modern C-shaped neck profile. It also has a 9.5"-radius fingerboard and a string-through body bridge with block steel saddles.

Most buyers are pretty pleased with this Fender model, saying it's quite lightweight, sleek and produces great tone selections. It has simple controls and medium jumbo frets, suitable for beginners and pros alike. It also has 6 standard Fender machine heads and a nut made of synthetic bone. Users said it produces crisp sounds with plenty of twangs and jazzy notes. However, the C-shaped design makes restringing a challenge.

If money isn't much of an object to you, Martin's T1K Tenor ukulele has 4.2/5 star rating after 26 Amazon reviews. Why are there so few user reviews attached to this product, you may be asking yourself? Honestly, you'll find the same phenomenon for high-end Rolex watches or anything else that's this premium -- ukuleles at this deeper end of the pool are bought in far fewer numbers, and typically from a specialised retailer.

As you'd expect from a well-respected brand like Martin, to buy the T1K Tenor is to say mahalo to a truly exceptional ukulele. This is a 17" scale length, 1.88 kg instrument that offers 20 frets along a select hardwood neck with solid morado fingerboard. Discerning critics have called said fretboard spacious and playable, though the neck isn't quite wide enough to be considered chunky. The action on offer here is in the moderate range -- this is by many accounts a fun ukulele to play.

While we're on the topic of materials and design, the reason you'll be paying a premium price here is mostly due to the solid koa wood used in the body. Hawaiian Koa doesn't come cheap, but the benefits of this type of using it can be instantly heard in terms of brightness and loudness. It can also be felt; this is a comparatively light uke.

Other benefits include the open-back Grover tuners that are often thrown in with T1Ks. These are smooth and accurate tuning solutions that are widely considered to be high quality. T1Ks are also factory strung with Martin-brand fluorocarbon strings -- decent wires that help this ukulele deliver such a resonant, warm, open tone.

We compared over 500 products from more than 47 musical instruments brands across 6 different product categories and sub-categories and based our picks on real customer reviews sourced from popular stores and reviews sites. We also took into consideration first-hand testing by the Finder reviews team.

The products on this list are chosen by our editorial team and are not selected based on commercial relationships.

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