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 of guitarist Dimitri Illarionov. (Russian and English) -Blog and homepage of guitarist Yang Xuefei. (Chinese and English) -Blog and homepage of the guitarist and composer Angelo Gilardino. -Blog of Matanya Ophee, guitarist and founder of the publishing company Editions Orphée. -Blog of guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin. (Russian) -Blog and article archive of guitarist/composer/writer Julia Crowe. -Blog of the American guitarist Dan Cosley. -Violão Clássico Weblog A Portuguese language Blog featuring articles, interviews and announcements related to the classical guitar in Brazil. -Blog of John Philip Dimick, founder of Guitarist.com. -Archive of Laura Markee blogs, miscellaneous topics on the classical