Like many players of a certain age, my first guitar was a nylon-string. I don’t think it had a brand name, but it was definitely a cheapo. I’d caught the rock ’n’ roll bug much earlier, which meant ...

Oh, and never fit steel strings to a classical guitar. Most nylon-strung guitars don’t have trussrods to protect their necks from the increased tension of steel strings, which means the neck on your ...

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 ...

Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t tend to ...

Presenting electric guitar playability on a nylon-string platform, Henson’s TOD10N changed the world after he used it on ...

With a slim cutaway body, affordable price and preamp, this might just sell devout steel-stringers on a nylon acoustic When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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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 ...

If you unwrapped a new guitar this Christmas season, or your dad handed you down his old axe, you probably need to get it professionally set up. A proper setup for your guitar can mean the difference ...