A nylon string guitar is a type of acoustic guitar that’s different from standard steel string acoustic guitars, since it has nylon strings that make fingering and picking less stressful. Also known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GIT509 How to set up a classical guitar. Like many players of a certain age, my first guitar was a nylon-string. I don't think it ...

It’s not that playing a classical guitar with nylon strings is impossible for those of us who learned how to play on steel-string acoustic or electric guitars. It’s not that we don’t like the sound of ...

Even for experienced steel-string guitar players, the world of nylon-string and classical guitar can be intimidating. There is a lot of jargon, much of it in Spanish, and an entire vocabulary of new ...

Cordoba’s nylon-string electric, the Stage is “made for playing onstage and addresses feedback issues while nailing Cordoba’s authentic acoustic nylon-string tones,” explains Guitar World Tech Editor ...

With a family history of lutherie that dates back to 1928, Manuel A Delgado builds over 45 different types of string instruments by hand using old-world techniques. Manuel carries on a ...

Rose Augustine, who with her late husband developed and manufactured the first nylon guitar strings -- a post-World War II innovation that revolutionized classical guitar playing -- has died. She was ...

Native Instruments has released SESSION GUITARIST -- PICKED NYLON, the latest addition to their range of KONTAKT-based instruments, created in collaboration with Drumasonic. Here's more details in ...

Charles Saufley is a writer and musician from Northern California. He has served as gear editor at Premier Guitar since 2010 and held the same position at Acoustic Guitar Magazine from 2006 to 2009.