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 ...

Oh, and never fit steel strings to a classical guitar. Most nylon-strung guitars don’t have trussrods to protect their necks from the increased tension of steel strings, which means the neck on your ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns Even for experienced steel-string guitar players, the world of ...

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 known ...

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 ...

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 ...