Posted by colincurious on 09/22/06 11:20

thank for this, the friend was at a party and the mother she does not
know well/have contract details and the birthday is v. soon

the option you suggest may be on the pricey side for her but you get
what you pay for so she may well go for something like this. cheers

Paul Andrews wrote:
> <colincurious@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1158888984.054092.156980@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > A friends daughter is about to have her 9th birthday who has been seen
> > enjoying singing into the karaoke machine of a friend of similar age.
> > The machine was plugged into the television and the song titles
> > appeared on the bottom of the screen along with a wiggly music line to
> > show the beat of the music.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a karaoke machine similar to the above or perhaps
> > even better? No problem paying a little more if worth it, but
> > essentially a relatively inexpensive machine is being looked for but
> > not so cheap the birthday girl will not enjoy it and so that it will
> > give her lasting pleasure. Product suitabilty for a 9 year old is the
> > priority.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated! Thank you.
>
> Well, the obvious thing to do would be to ask the mum of your daughters
> friend, what machine she has and is she pleased with it.
>
> Our daughter had a goodmans karaoke machine and had a lot of fun with it
> over several years - cost was about £110. What helped her have fun was the
> fact it had cassettes as well as the CD player, so her and her brother could
> make their own radio programmes on cassette by doing DJ intros etc. My
> daughter used it as a hi fi in her bedroom too and in fact it never was
> plugged into a TV. It was a great buy for us and they certainly had their
> moneysworth out of it.
>
> Paul

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