Electric guitar pickups rely on steel strings interfering with a magnetic field, the changes in which are picked up with coils of wire. That doesn’t work with nylon strings, because they don’t tend to ...

Like many players of a certain age, my first guitar was a nylon-string. I don’t think it had a brand name, but it was definitely a cheapo. I’d caught the rock ’n’ roll bug much earlier, which meant ...

We were not the only ones to get excited when Tosin Abasi teased the latest prototype for Abasi Concepts’ new nylon-string guitar in December last year. Abasi was so taken with it that he spilled his ...

To non-musicians I’m sure that steel-string and nylon-string guitars probably look almost indistinguishable – they’re just acoustic guitars. However, anyone who has listened to both side-by-side will ...

Abasi says Fishman is designing the pickup for what promises to be a groundbreaking acoustic electric. In other Abasi Concepts news, fresh Legion Series models in Deep Sage drop today When you ...