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 ...

It’s not that playing a classical guitar with nylon strings is impossible for those of us who learned how to play on steel-string acoustic or electric guitars. It’s not that we don’t like the sound of ...

Native Instruments has released SESSION GUITARIST -- PICKED NYLON, the latest addition to their range of KONTAKT-based instruments, created in collaboration with Drumasonic. Here's more details in ...

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 ...

PRESS RELEASE: Building upon the success of the company's Nylon Series (NS) guitars, Taylor Guitars is set to release a new nylon-string guitar model which embodies all that classical and steel string ...

With a family history of lutherie that dates back to 1928, Manuel A Delgado builds over 45 different types of string instruments by hand using old-world techniques. Manuel carries on a ...

Orange Tree Samples says that Evolution Honey Nylon captures the sound of an authentic Spanish-made classical guitar, recorded entirely fingerstyle to preserve its natural, organic character. Here's ...

Charles Saufley is a writer and musician from Northern California. He has served as gear editor at Premier Guitar since 2010 and held the same position at Acoustic Guitar Magazine from 2006 to 2009.

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 ...