Acoustic Paradiso - Which is better - Traditional or Modern Classical Nylon Guitars 

exact same feelings here. hint hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge? Lee? pretty please with a cherry on top?

Captain and the Andertones: Unplugged.

This neeeeeds to happen! I would pay serious money for an andertons CD!

Holy shit still a good idea 3 years later LOL

speaking as a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, that is the most perfect description of Massachusetts that has ever existed

Sounds fishy to me...

@@fiacmar I actually groaned when I read this . You can have a like for that

do you know what yamaha ?

@@olsza6969 I have an old Yamaha nylon string, the G 170A, I bought it in 1969/70. Still sounds gorgeous.

^The best comment

Could you elaborate. I'm seeing this as a challenge.

Jelte Derksen seeing what as a challenge?

wikichris doing the things you can do at a nylon but supposedly not at a steel string

Jelte Derksen rasgueados cannot be done effectively on a steel string guitar. Perhaps with some artificially strengthened nails it could be done. It can be done, but very quickly yours nails will be destroyed within minutes.

I'm a classical guitarist/fingerstyle guitarist and i indulge in a lot of crossover (if that's the correct word to use in this context). i'm quite aware that my nails are ridiculously and also somewhat abnormally strong - which is why i string my nylon with extra hard tensions and my acoustic with 12s (sometimes 13s) - but there is no reason why you couldn't play classical pieces or styles on a steel string which accommodates that play style. By that i mean a wide nut and somewhat comfortable string spacing. In truth, classical guitar is soooo much more about technique and tone which you as a player express through a guitar. at the end of the day, a nylon string may have a better (wider) expression pallet for that style than a steel - but often i find myself performing with a steel string purely because some pieces require a tone which nylon strings just cant produce! if finger picking a steel string is your problem, go down a gauge set... you'll find it a lot easier.

Look at the Cordoba Fusion series, it starts under 500 quid.

But those hundreds of years of backstory are meaningless if you just want to play Metallica covers. Different strokes for different folks.

They're usually piezo-electric pickups which are like tiny microphones.

They would gain a very silent electric guitar. Nylon strings are invisible to the magnetic pickups in an electric guitar.

When I was a kid I think my mum would have loved a silent, nylon-stringed electric guitar for me.

You might be able to get some nylon effect with some kind of hybrid strings, but it would most likely be more effort that it's worth. String tension, magnetic pickup, etc.

Actually the wound strings would make a sound since they're metal wrapped with a nylon core, but the plain nylon treble strings wouldn't register.

Entirely depends on if the metal they use in the wound strings is ferromagnetic, although the core wouldn't be so they'd be fairly quiet. I'm sure they are though, so there would probably be some sound.

4 years later 😂 tears in heaven by Clapton.

Thanks 💀💀💀

Agreed, although both sounded good unplugged, the Taylor's Expression 2 sucks.

I'll probably go with the silent guitar (SLG-100 I guess) though.

Check out the Cordoba Fusion series, they have a slightly narrower nut (48mm), a radiused fingerboard and a cutaway. I tried the maple one and it was absolutely brilliant, I'm buying one soon.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try one out.

@@alunotorre....the Corboda fusion series are good classical guitar for the price. I bought a Natural 12. Love it.💕🎸

MegaLochgelly Also thinner body wood and a different neck angle. Lower bridge too. They’re much lighter than classicals.

@@Guitarplayer1970 imma go out on a limb here and say classical guitars aren’t just made for steel string players. Even further, I’d imagine that while those players you reference do exist, “most people” looking at buying a classical guitar are …. Classical guitarists.

@@Guitarplayer1970 I got nothing against these guys banging around on the guitars. Would be great to have a classical guitarist though to demo a classical guitar.

@@Guitarplayer1970 that isn’t true at all. There are major differences between Yamaha and Cordobas under 1k. And major differences between different tone woods. Do you play classical style or are you just trolling me?