What a great first harmonica! Kids will love playing this authentic 16-hole harmonica, which encourages musical exploration, creativity, and showmanship. Delivers great sound quality, and who knows...this could be your little prodigy s springboard to blues, rock, jazz or country music! 5"L. For ages 3 and up. 5"L x 1"W x 3/4"H"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but give that man a harmonica and he s always got a fallback career." OK, that may not be how the proverb goes, but with this starter instrument your child may have all the harmonica needed to play in a blues band. Green plastic valves are sandwiched between two shiny silver plates, making this a dependable, well-built buy. No instructions are included, which promises for some initial "hee-haw, hee-haw" trial tunesmithing, so you might want to accompany the gift with a how-to book for your little musician. --Keith Simanton