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 ...

(Image credit: Abasi Concepts) “What's really cool is that on a nylon-string guitar, you could never play the 19th fret,” says Abasi. “And I really like that you can sweep pick on this thing, so it ...

Ah, fresh strings! Maybe the last time you fit a set is now a distant memory? Maybe the strings on your classical guitar have ...

Students are required to have their own instrument. The use of a classical guitar nylon-string is highly recommended for the purposes of this course, but acoustic guitars (steel-string) will be ...

The acoustic guitar is increasingly one of the most popular instruments ... The strings, however, are slightly different: they're usually made of nylon or gut, unlike the metal strings used on ...

I will forever be indebted to my parents for the gift of the guitar. My patient and kind mother encouraged me when I wanted to give up. She believed in my potential and pushed me to keep practising.