wkitty42 wrote in Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:30 am:classic guitar has nylon strings?? and here i thought that gut was the favored string material for classic string instruments...
Classic string instruments is a big category haha. Gut is more much more high maintenance and is more expensive generally. Most people who are playing casually/learning/whatever will use nylon for the G, B, and e strings on their classical guitar, with wound metal strings for the E, A and D strings.
Yes, recalling my experience playing violin in high school, sheep gut sounds best by a wide margin, but it is expensive, fragile, and temperamental (tuning varies annoyingly with temperature and humidity, especially during the first few minutes of playing). Still, I used gut wound with nickel-silver for G, D, and A, and of course steel for E. I have no idea what's available today, or what it costs.
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