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 ...

Steel-string guitars, on the other hand, rarely have slotted headstocks. Instead, the preference is usually for tuning pegs. Very occasionally, tuning pegs can be found on high-end, nylon-string ...

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 ...

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&… ...

Guitar strings are measured in 1/1000th of an inch, with packs typically listing the thinnest string. For example, a pack of ...

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 ...

This guitar’s laminate top, combined with its nylon strings, means that it doesn’t project as loudly as a full-size, steel-string guitar, so players of the FA-15 may struggle to be heard when ...

One of the main differences between typical classical and acoustic guitars are the strings. Classical guitars have six strings made of nylon – a type of plastic that simulates the animal gut strings ...

D'Addario EJ45 Pro-Arte Nylon Classical Guitar Strings, Normal Tension – Nylon Core Basses, Laser Selected Trebles - Offers Balance of Volume and Comfortable Resistance – 1 Set ...

These bright and reliable acoustic guitar strings aren’t the cheapest out there, but are a good all-purpose set with a multi-filament nylon core for the lower strings for extra warmth, and ...