Any of you musicians?

[Oil-burner]

+1 for tanglewood here!
However as said above there are a few nice beginners yamahas around, my first guitar was a Pacifica and it was/is great, still use it 14 years later!

that's an electric though mate . . he's after an acoustic . . .

Yeah I know, I was just saying that yams are actually quite good and used the Pacifica as an example.
I actually recommend tanglewood to start with in agreement with Matt.