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Classical Guitars: Guitar neck is wider, having nylon strings. Nylon strings are thicker and sound more mellow. Acoustic Guitar: Neck is thin, Steel strings, strings resonates longer and sounds brighter.
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A classical Guitar has nylon strings and has a wider fretboard. It is used to play genres of Music like. 1) Western classical Music. 2) Flamenco Music. 3) Contemporary fingerstyle & Jazz....
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A classical Guitar has nylon strings and has a wider fretboard. It is used to play genres of Music like. 1) Western classical Music. 2) Flamenco Music. 3) Contemporary fingerstyle & Jazz. A. A steel string guitar has steel string ( different gauges) a not as wife as classical guitar. It is very commonly used in. 1) Pop & Roch music. 2) Country music, RnB , fingertstyle. read less
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There are two types of Acoustic Guitars Nylon String and Steel String. Nylon String Guitars are used for Classical Guitar while Steel String Acoustic is used for more contemporary music.
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Classical guitar has nylon strings and acoustic has steel srings
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Both styles of guitar are actually Acoustic guitars but Classical models have nylon strings whereas the more modern instruments, which are referred to as Acoustic guitars, have steel strings
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