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I want to learn a musical instrument, I am however torn between the ukulele and a 3/4 size guitar. any advise?

I’d go with the guitar.

Ukeleles are fairly limited in the sounds they can create, whereas guitars can sound like ukeleles AND *all kinds* of other ways.
Guitars can also be played in quite complicated ways or in very simple ones, so you could just stick with the simpler ones first then be in a good place to go to more and more guitar things. (And once you learn even simple guitar, it would be easy to pick up a ukelele and play some stuff, though it wouldn’t work as easily in the other direction.)

My 2 cents anyway (and I have played both a little),

Diane B.

The vibrator creates the sound waves, this will be from different sources depending on the instrument. In the case of the guitar, its the strings, in wind instruments, it’s the air from the mouth.
The guitar can be used as an example, BUT it MUST be an accoustic guitar, not an electric guitar.