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 ...

PRESS RELEASE: Takamine celebrate the introduction of its new Pro Series 1, Series 2 and Series 3 electro-acoustic guitars. Each Takamine Pro Series instrument is carefully hand-crafted in the ...

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 ...

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 ...