Guitar Strings Acoustic Nylon
Acoustic Guitar…Metal or Nylon Strings?
I inherited my father’s acoustic guitar with metal strings. I would like to take beginning lessons, but I have heard that Nylon strings are better if one is just learning. Can someone shed some light on this subject. Also, Can I re-string the guitar with Nylon? Thanks for your help!
If it is a guitar with metal strings DO NOT PUT NYLON STRINGS ON IT.
This can ultimately damage the guitar (though not as quickly as putting steel strings on a nylon string guitar).
A steel-string guitar has a truss rod in the necj designed to put backward tension on the neck to compensate for the great force of the pull of the steel strings. With the lesser tensioned nylon strings, over time the neck may bend back and ruin the guitar.
If you are learning, what sort of guitar you should have depends upon what sort of msuic you want to play. If you want to play classical guitar, you will need a decent nylon string classical guitar …
For just about ANY OTHER SORT of music, a steel string acoustic is best because you can produce sound on it without mucking around with an amplifier, and it will build the right callouses and finger strength for you to be able to play anything.
Gear lesson on nylon string classical guitar differences vs acoustic Esteve Zambra