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 ...

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We pit steel-string guitars head-to-head with their nylon-string counterparts. What are the main differences, and which is best for you? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Behind every great guitarist, is a lesser known artist. Antonio "Tony" Acosta is a classical musician and business owner, but he also manufactures some of ...

BENGALURU: The origins of the classical guitar still remain uncertain, centuries after the instrument was designed. Resembling the design of an acoustic one, this guitar has nylon strings that can ...