I would go with anything classical / nylon strings. Yamaha is your bread & butter and have affordable models. My wife's Yamaha survived through high school, college, camping...me.. and still sounds great. I personally like Cordoba guitars. I think, he would need 3/4 scale.

P.S. Speaking of Cordoba. They have a line of small (!) guitars. Pobably some guitar players here will hiss at me.. but I highly recommend that to start with... It was a spontaneous buy for me and one of the best guitars I have owned. Check out the demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCEYqOfsMrs

Forgot to mention, I believe most of these small Cordobas, have electronics (my does), so you can hook them up to amp to play or record.


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