Dabbling with a nylon-string guitar, when your primary instrument is a steel-string or an electric guitar, takes a lot of getting used to, so many brands now make ‘cross over’ guitars with narrower ...

Best acoustic guitars 2025: Super steel string acoustics for all players and budgets. Buying Guides. By Chris Bird Contributions from Matt McCracken, Daryl Robertson last updated 15 January 2025 ...

The Hawaiian music craze of the 1920s and early '30s was a pivotal era that helped shape the modern steel-string acoustic guitar. Now Martin Guitar pays tribute to that time with the O’ahu HG-28 ...

A Taylor 410E-R steel-string electro-acoustic guitar (L) and a Martin DR Centennial steel-string acoustic guitar. What are the most popular acoustic guitar brands?

This guitar’s laminate top, combined with its nylon strings, means that it doesn’t project as loudly as a full-size, steel-string guitar, so players of the FA-15 may struggle to be heard when ...

The steel-string acoustic guitar is one of the world's most popular musical instruments. Some of the woods used for guitar backs are revered by guitar players for their acoustic qualities, and are ...

We're in a guitar world, from Pakistan to Brazil and from steel strings to nylon, as the Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet and Trio da Paz play in turn at the Newport Jazz Festival. Abbasi premiered ...