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 ...

Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns 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 ...

Nylon-stringed guitars are a great choice for people who want to play softer, more romantic music, such as classical or flamenco. They’re also ideal for beginners, since the strings tend to be gentler ...

We were not the only ones to get excited when Tosin Abasi teased the latest prototype for Abasi Concepts’ new nylon-string ...

Harley Benton has expanded its lineup of nylon-string guitars with the Nashville Nylon Plus Black, a smart cutaway acoustic ...

This features a handy onboard tuner along with Volume, Treble and Bass controls – plus a Phase switch. With a 1 15/16" depth, the Talman-esque body shape could help introduce nylon-string guitar to a ...

2003-05-01 04:00:00 PDT New York-- Rose Augustine, a former chemistry teacher who with her husband revolutionized the world of the classical guitar by developing the nylon guitar string, died on ...