You will probably find the simpler the "instrument" the easier and cheaper it is. Whatever you do spend as much as you can and get the best one within your price range. You will soon get totally p'd off with an egg slicer, whether it is called, guitar, dulcimer or piano. Practise, practise, practise, if I had done that for the last 35 years I could maybe call myself a guitarist by now. Good luck, if I was doing it now I would probably start with the dulcimer IMO, value $0.00. JohnB