Children are not stupid. You want to trumpet that also work and not just cheap toys which keys you often can not even press. This trumpet really works! Well, you can not play the whole gamut so. For me - as an adult - that was the reason to give my son plus the saxophone from the same company. But it should be the trumpet, the saxophone he gave the same to his younger brother on ... children up. The trumpet is one of his favorite instruments. It is now two months ago, he was given it - and there is nothing broken or otherwise disposed of. And since children the best "Stability - Tester" for toys are, which is a real plus point. The sound is okay. In short, the trumpet works, it is stable and makes a lot of fun! The only drawback: it does not play all the notes, but that does not interfere with a child apparently necessarily. My recommendation to the manufacturers: there is this quite cheap instruments and there is then equal to much more expensive instruments, but priced as high nothing in between! That would be a gap in the market, right? Parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts and the children themselves had put this instrument to the heart!