Electro nylon recommendations

Fretwired · February 2014

Can anyone recommend a cost-effective electro-nylon guitar around the £600 mark.

richardhomer · February 2014

Yamaha are well regarded (can't remember the actual model names/number). I played one a few years ago and it was very nice.

equalsql · February 2014

The Yamaha NTX700 or above are nice guitars. I've had a Yamaha electro-classical for 20 years and it's been a reliable workhouse. Keep it in my office at work so I still play it every day.

One up on ebay at the mo.

DulcetJones · February 2014

I've owned a Takamine CP132s for about 20 years, played over 100 gigs a year for almost 10 years and still love it.

tonyrath · February 2014

Coda have some nice yummiest in nb not classical width fretboard

Fretwired · February 2014

tonyrath said:

Coda have some nice yummiest in nb not classical width fretboard

It's not for me.

RocknRollDave · February 2014

I have a Yamaha NCX900R, and very nice it is too.

It has the Classical width fretboard, which takes a bit of getting used to, but I didn't want to chicken out and get one that was more modern in case it didn't feel like a "proper" classical to me...whatever that meant!

After years of playing mostly traditionally-spec'ed electrics (Tele, LP) , a guitar with a flat fingerboard seems a bit odd - it even looks concave to the eye, but as I say you get used to it.

siraxeman · February 2014

I also got the NCX 900...mines the maple back n sides tho. Still great guitar acoustically and plugged in. At first I got the NTX700...and its easier to play with a narrower more normal nut width. But acoustically it sounded poor to my ears...so I took it back the next day and added a bit more cash and got the much nicer sounding NCX900...the deeper body makes all the difference. Shame they didn't do the NTX with a deeper body as that was the guitars undoing for me...as I'd want it primarily for unplugged playing ie acoustic..and only occasionally plugged in for recording or gigging. The extra width of the fuller classical neck makes thumb over the top chords like D/F# more difficult but you soon get used to it...tone comes first doesn't it! I did pick up the NCX700 and the NCX1200 (I think) which was well over a grand and out of my price range but the step up in tone from the 700 to the 900 was significant and less so from the 900 to the 1200 (not sure if it was actually the 2000...but it was one of the top 2 in the NCX range). So yeah another thumbs up for Yamaha!! Good souding guitars and good value.

Jalapeno · February 2014

Yamaha Silent. If anything like the steel strung one it'll be a belter.

Kebabkid · February 2014

Jalapeno said:

Yamaha Silent. If anything like the steel strung one it'll be a belter.

I like the ones I've tried and I believe you can get them in different neck widths too (wider, more traditional or modern and narrow). Great plugged in sound too but for obvious reasons, lacking in the acoustic/unplugged sound. Serves as a travel guitar too with headphone + reverb option and the fact you can remove the metal body strips.

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