Classical guitar Classical guitar The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music. It is an acoustic wooden guitar with strings made of gut or nylon, rather than the metal strings used in acoustic and electric guitars. For a right-handed player, the traditional classical guitar has twelve frets clear of the body and is properly held on the left leg, so that the hand that plucks or strums the strings does so near the back of the sound hole (this is called the classical position). The modern steel
Classical guitar magazines Classical guitar magazines This article lists classical guitar related media works (magazines, blogs and online radio stations). -Soundboard Membership in the Guitar Foundation of America includes a subscription to "Soundboard", a quarterly classical guitar magazine featuring a wide variety of technical and musical columns, new music, and reviews that is published in the United States. -Classical Guitar Magazine Formerly published in the UK, but since 2015 published in the USA, "Classical Guitar Magazine" regularly includes features, interviews, international news, coverage of worldwide guitar events, music, book, concert and recording reviews, articles on guitar history, musical analysis and technique, a flamenco