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As has already been mentioned, a lot of "folk" performers play on nylon strings. It's a beautiful sound, not to be limited to classical music. Jerry Reed (though not really a "folk" performer, buy certainly finger style) and Duck Baker, as mentioned, are great guitarists who play nylon. For a great sound of nylon strung finger style playing check out the late Bola Sete, a Brazilian guitarist who was brilliant on nylon, playing native Brazilian music and a mix of folk, jazz, and samba. Beautiful music. And don't forget flamenco. Nylon strings have a completely different sound to steel, and so may not be perfectly suitable for blues, for example, yet I've heard blues played on nylon strings and it works just fine. String bending is a bit less effective on nylon, but it can be done. I play steel, but sometimes I wish I had a nylon strung guitar also. It's a whole new guitar world with it's own techniques.
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As for folk and nylon.....absolutely love it.
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Like others have said, there is nothing wrong with using a nylon guitar for folk. Personally, I don't enjoy it as much when accompanied by singing. I really love classical guitars for instrumental work but I just prefer steel strings for '60s type folk music (in general).
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What we think of playing folk music on a nylon string guitar is of neglible importance to what you think of it. Since you have a classical guitar and apparently enjoy playing it, i assume you've tred some folk tunes on it. What did/do you think?
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I play a lot of folk music, mostly Lightfoot and some bluegrass. I see no reason why a classical guitar wouldn't work. Just have fun and enjoy the music you make.
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I have an amazing local friend, Anders Sterner, who is a true renaissance-man...classical guitar-builder, classical (and other music) guitarist, engineer, auto-mechanic...just a truly superb all-around guy (link to Anders' website in my Sig. File, below). He just completed a 604mm scale cutaway concert-quality classical guitar for me. Standard flat-fingerboard, 52mm width nut. Aside from the scale and cutaway it is a straight-ahead Classical guitar...and I am loving it. Frankly, I am simply *amazed* at how strong and pure (and beautiful) Anders has done with the tone/sound with the short scale. Hard tension Savarez Alliance (w/carbon trebles) are the strings, so far...we will be doing some experiments shortly with swapping-out either full string-sets or individual strings with unusual sizes...
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If you're interested in nylon string with vocals, I recommend Burl Ives, in particular his box set Wayfaring Stranger. It's great stuff.
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Classical guitars are really interesting sounding. I think they work especially well with some of the older fiddle tunes and other music that was popular before steel strings were widely accepted. And they just give a different flavor to what you're cooking some times.
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Thanks to everyone who posted. I really appreciate your encouraging words.
Im not a good player to tell the truth, but I can tell you I love the sound I get from my classical when I try some folk fingerstyle on it. I do love its sweet singing tone if you know what I mean.. And just for the record, though it's a different type of instrument when compared to the steel string acoustic, I do play my classical like a regular acoustic. I mean no previous classical training here (footstool, rest stroke...etc.) or anything. just the classical guitar, me and some casual fingerpicking technique of mine |
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actually played by Fred Carter Jr. including "The Boxer". Ron |