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José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon Guitar to Pop

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon ...

Before Sting or Willie Nelson, one musician proved that the nylon-string classical guitar could top the pop charts: José Feliciano. A blind virtuoso from Puerto Rico, he took the warm...

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon ...

Before Sting or Willie Nelson, one musician proved that the nylon-string classical guitar could top the pop charts: José Feliciano. A blind virtuoso from Puerto Rico, he took the warm...

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Scored a Masterpiece

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Score...

Millions of people fell in love with the sound of The Last of Us without ever knowing what they were hearing. That fragile, aching main theme — the one that...

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Score...

Millions of people fell in love with the sound of The Last of Us without ever knowing what they were hearing. That fragile, aching main theme — the one that...

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Famous Classical Guitar

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Fa...

One of the most famous guitars in the world is not an electric, and not a steel-string flat-top. It is a worn, hole-ridden nylon-string classical guitar named Trigger — and...

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Fa...

One of the most famous guitars in the world is not an electric, and not a steel-string flat-top. It is a worn, hole-ridden nylon-string classical guitar named Trigger — and...

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the Heart of His Songs

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the ...

Most people picture Sting with a bass guitar, fronting The Police. But across his solo career he became one of pop's most prominent champions of the nylon-string classical guitar, and...

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the ...

Most people picture Sting with a bass guitar, fronting The Police. But across his solo career he became one of pop's most prominent champions of the nylon-string classical guitar, and...

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind Martin Guitars

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind...

Most guitarists have never heard the name Johann Georg Stauffer, yet they encounter his influence every day. The greatest Viennese maker of the early nineteenth century, Stauffer trained a young...

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind...

Most guitarists have never heard the name Johann Georg Stauffer, yet they encounter his influence every day. The greatest Viennese maker of the early nineteenth century, Stauffer trained a young...

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inventive Guitar Maker

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inv...

Germany's great contribution to the classical guitar is usually told through Hermann Hauser. But there is a second German name every collector should know: Richard Jacob, who signed his instruments...

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inv...

Germany's great contribution to the classical guitar is usually told through Hermann Hauser. But there is a second German name every collector should know: Richard Jacob, who signed his instruments...

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the French School

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the Fr...

Few stories in lutherie are as unlikely as that of Robert Bouchet. He was a respected Paris painter who did not build his first guitar until he was forty-eight —...

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the Fr...

Few stories in lutherie are as unlikely as that of Robert Bouchet. He was a respected Paris painter who did not build his first guitar until he was forty-eight —...

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "Spanish Sound"

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "...

A few makers are remembered as much for their writing as for their guitars. José Luis Romanillos (1932–2022) is one of them: a luthier whose instruments carried the pure, balanced...

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "...

A few makers are remembered as much for their writing as for their guitars. José Luis Romanillos (1932–2022) is one of them: a luthier whose instruments carried the pure, balanced...

Ignacio Fleta — The Rolls-Royce of the Classical Guitar

Ignacio Fleta — The Rolls-Royce of the Classica...

Ask a roomful of guitarists to name the most coveted instruments of the twentieth century and one name comes up again and again: Ignacio Fleta. The Barcelona maker built the...

Ignacio Fleta — The Rolls-Royce of the Classica...

Ask a roomful of guitarists to name the most coveted instruments of the twentieth century and one name comes up again and again: Ignacio Fleta. The Barcelona maker built the...

Famous Musicians Who Play Classical (Nylon-String) Guitar

Famous Musicians Who Play Classical (Nylon-Stri...

The nylon-string classical guitar is usually pictured in the concert hall, on a footstool, playing Bach or Tárrega. But its warm, soft voice has quietly shaped pop, rock, country and...

Famous Musicians Who Play Classical (Nylon-Stri...

The nylon-string classical guitar is usually pictured in the concert hall, on a footstool, playing Bach or Tárrega. But its warm, soft voice has quietly shaped pop, rock, country and...

Erik Satie on Classical Guitar — The Gentle Eccentric

Erik Satie on Classical Guitar — The Gentle Ecc...

Some music feels as though it were always meant for the guitar, even when it was written for something else entirely. The spare, hypnotic piano pieces of Erik Satie (1866–1925)...

Erik Satie on Classical Guitar — The Gentle Ecc...

Some music feels as though it were always meant for the guitar, even when it was written for something else entirely. The spare, hypnotic piano pieces of Erik Satie (1866–1925)...

Classical vs Acoustic Guitar — What's Really the Difference?

Classical vs Acoustic Guitar — What's Really th...

"Classical or acoustic?" is one of the first questions every new guitarist faces, and the labels cause more confusion than they should. A classical guitar is an acoustic instrument —...

Classical vs Acoustic Guitar — What's Really th...

"Classical or acoustic?" is one of the first questions every new guitarist faces, and the labels cause more confusion than they should. A classical guitar is an acoustic instrument —...

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