Interesting, tony.
Now, here's a question: Your daughter's fingers are a lot smaller... What not have her do a sound sample on the Aphid? I'm thinking that you're just pressing too hard o the strings, and the frets are so narrow that your finger tips are hitting multiple frets at a time.
Yes, it will still have that plinky sound, but we expect an instrument that small to be plinky.
What so you think - are the two of you up for it?
-Kurt