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Guitar players corner!
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This is the version we saw Saturday evening at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Fantastic show. 
I have a question: How many players here mainly play nylon string guitars?
I started out on nylon when I was about 15, and have recently rediscovered it.
The warmer sound, and the softer feel on the fingers.
I still like my steel string, a Washburn, but my Cordoba Stage has stolen the show.
Am I any good?
Nope!
I started out on nylon when I was about 15, and have recently rediscovered it.
The warmer sound, and the softer feel on the fingers.
I still like my steel string, a Washburn, but my Cordoba Stage has stolen the show.
Am I any good?
Nope!
25% of my guitars are nylon string. 1/5 of the strings on my guitars are nylon.
I have had a nice steel string Yamaha from the mid-‘70s for about twenty years, but have largely neglected itI have a question: How many players here mainly play nylon string guitars?
I started out on nylon when I was about 15, and have recently rediscovered it.
The warmer sound, and the softer feel on the fingers.
I still like my steel string, a Washburn, but my Cordoba Stage has stolen the show.
Am I any good?
Nope!
However, I decided to learn flamenco techniques (for evil 
more on that in a minute) earlier this year, so I acquired Yamaha’s flamenco-specific offering and I quickly learned to love nylon strings.Why evil?
I intend to apply flamenco strumming and plucking techniques where I can to the Abomination, my short scale B0–B2 bass vi type thing.While my teacher says it takes about a year to get proficient at flamenco and I believe him, I already know enough to tell that I enjoy the style and the instrument I use for it enough for their own sake that I might have to get a second flamenco guitar and put baritone strings on it … for even more evil, bwahaha!
I have had a long desire to get back into learning classical guitar. I shall purchase one one day. I started on a borrowed nylon string guitar 52 odd years back and have not had one since.
My first real guitar was a classical, and I took some lessons in that style.
I still have and still play that guitar.
I recently had it fixed so I can keep playing it.
It is important to me.
My heart though, is more in electric guitars.
I love both, and my acoustic 12 string.
This is the guitar I play the most.
Great neck on it.
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I still have and still play that guitar.
I recently had it fixed so I can keep playing it.
It is important to me.
My heart though, is more in electric guitars.
I love both, and my acoustic 12 string.
This is the guitar I play the most.
Great neck on it.
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Are the bent steel saddles on a Player I Stratocaster 10.5mm or 10.8mm in size? Looking to upgrade them to block saddles for comfort reasons.
My nylon string story: The local community theater was putting on "The Man of La Mancha", and a friend was doing all of the music on his synth workstation. The director said he wanted a real guitar, though, so my friend called me.I have a question: How many players here mainly play nylon string guitars?
I started out on nylon when I was about 15, and have recently rediscovered it.
The warmer sound, and the softer feel on the fingers.
I still like my steel string, a Washburn, but my Cordoba Stage has stolen the show.
Am I any good?
Nope!
Friend: Do you have a nylon string guitar?
Me: No, but I'm sure I can get one.
I went to a local music store, and sure enough, there was a used Hernandis nylon string guitar in a chipboard case. I played it for a bit, decided it sounded good, and handed over $150 and took it home. I got paid $150 to play in that show, so it was a net zero purchase. Score!
The neck on this guitar never moves, and it sounds great. I've used it to record many times.
I've got nylon strings on my kid's little Fender acoustic. I like playing it for the "Iron & Wine" vibe
After 3 years of playing piccolo bass and an unsuccessful piccolo bass NBD this week, I'm thinking about switching from piccolo bass to guitar. I've been playing:
- Bass since 2009
- Baritone ukulele and tenor (4 string) guitar on and off since 2013 (I tune both to D3-G3-B4-E4 like the highest 4 strings of a guitar)
- Piccolo bass since 2022
I somewhat know how to play the highest 4 strings of a guitar from playing baritone ukulele and tenor guitar. The lowest 4 strings of the guitar are the same as on piccolo bass. Yesterday, I realized that 6 string guitar is the tenor guitar and the piccolo bass all in one instrument!
This mathematician finally put 2 and 2 together! 
I went to my local GC yesterday and I played a very nice Schecter guitar. Playing it helped me realize what I said in the last paragraph. What was crazy is that I was able to play lead lines, 2-3 note power chords in the lower register, 2-4 note ukulele chords in the upper register, and even some of my own piccolo bass solos. Even playing with a pick was a lot easier than playing with one on bass (I'm a fingerstyle bassist almost exclusively).
- Bass since 2009
- Baritone ukulele and tenor (4 string) guitar on and off since 2013 (I tune both to D3-G3-B4-E4 like the highest 4 strings of a guitar)
- Piccolo bass since 2022
I somewhat know how to play the highest 4 strings of a guitar from playing baritone ukulele and tenor guitar. The lowest 4 strings of the guitar are the same as on piccolo bass. Yesterday, I realized that 6 string guitar is the tenor guitar and the piccolo bass all in one instrument!
This mathematician finally put 2 and 2 together! I went to my local GC yesterday and I played a very nice Schecter guitar. Playing it helped me realize what I said in the last paragraph. What was crazy is that I was able to play lead lines, 2-3 note power chords in the lower register, 2-4 note ukulele chords in the upper register, and even some of my own piccolo bass solos. Even playing with a pick was a lot easier than playing with one on bass (I'm a fingerstyle bassist almost exclusively).
Better late than never.After 3 years of playing piccolo bass and an unsuccessful piccolo bass NBD this week, I'm thinking about switching from piccolo bass to guitar. I've been playing:
- Bass since 2009
- Baritone ukulele and tenor (4 string) guitar on and off since 2013 (I tune both to D3-G3-B4-E4 like the highest 4 strings of a guitar)
- Piccolo bass since 2022
I somewhat know how to play the highest 4 strings of a guitar from playing baritone ukulele and tenor guitar. The lowest 4 strings of the guitar are the same as on piccolo bass. Yesterday, I realized that 6 string guitar is the tenor guitar and the piccolo bass all in one instrument!
I went to my local GC yesterday and I played a very nice Schecter guitar. Playing it helped me realize what I said in the last paragraph. What was crazy is that I was able to play lead lines, 2-3 note power chords in the lower register, 2-4 note ukulele chords in the upper register, and even some of my own piccolo bass solos. Even playing with a pick was a lot easier than playing with one on bass (I'm a fingerstyle bassist almost exclusively).
Next thing you know you'll be hankering for a multi scale (fanned-fret) 12 string guitar.
Yamamoto MS-12.
Here is a photo showing another of its interesting features.
Manzer Wedge ™
I'm in love! Not that I need another guitar, I hardly play the ones I currently own, and I already have a (cheap) 12 string.
Tsuneyuki is retired and back in Japan (he was living and building his guitars in Dublin, Ca.); very prescient of him to retire and move home in the fall of '19.
I know of only one other MS-12.
