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Hey very good song choices!!! Although i feel the fact that theres no Jimi Hendrix in there at all is a lil bit of a downer. There should definitely be maybe some little wing, castles made of sand, or wind cries mary action, but other than that very strong song choices!
I like your choice of songs . The song that got me into guitar was Van Halen Aint talkin about love . I remember it was 1989 and I was living in California and I heard the song from the 1984 album. I also heard Eruption which made something in my head click.It was the beginning of a long journey.Regards Mark
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I know that putting a steel string on a classical guitar is not advisable as it can damage the bridge or the neck. And based on my research classical guitars doesn't have truss rods because nylon strings does not put heavy tensions ..
But i was surprised on the classical guitar that i bought because it has a truss rod in it. So i was wandering if i can put a steel string on it, because i think that the neck can handle the tension. And what about the bridge? I think that classical guitar's bridges is different from acoustic guitar's bridges.
This is not only about the neck. The pattern of bracing under the top, and the bridge plate under the top of your classical guitar, are designed to vibrate with and counteract the tension of nylon strings. Steel strings have twice the tension, so steel strings would cause the top of the guitar to warp upward, or "belly up" and eventually the bridge would rip loose from the top. This would destroy your guitar.
I did this once back in my younger years. The guitar did sound awesome, but over time it destroyed the structure and integrity of the instrument. I would not advise steel strings on classical guitar, unless you don't care about the instrument. Try some hard tension nylon strings instead.
Another problem with adding steel strings to nylon string guitars comes in the form of "how far from the neck the string is." A steel string guitar has the string very close to the neck so that it is playable, whilst a nylon string guitar has it a fair way from the neck so that it plays louder. There is quite a bit of theory involved here, but in simple terms, the nylon string guitar that has steel strings on it, if it was able to cope with the forces, would be very hard to play and not sound great at all.
The key is the string tension being similar to nylon strings. This will mean that you will have to do some calculations to determine the proper gauge strings to produce the notes at the tension that is safe. This D'addarion web site should help you in your endeavor...
The answer I have found works well is to use Newtone Heritage strings .010 to .043 gauge. These are "normal" steel and phosphor bronze - low tension -acoustic guitar strings and are hand wound in England. They have almost equal tension and although ultra-light gauge their total load is 94 lbs and therefore only slightly more than a set of low tension nylon strings. I have them on a lovely modern handmade Spanish guitar (Antonio Picado Model 49 2004) with a cedar top and Indian rosewood back and sides and the resulting sound is crisp and resonant - lovely for fingerpicking and arpeggios and very loud - certainly louder than my Martin D18 GE though without the woody bass from the Mahogany back. Lots more finger room and works well with an LR Baggs classical under saddle pickup. A good classical guitar can be very loud even with nylon strings and is more so picked with just bare finger pads.
Of course I agree that this is something that should not be tried on a very old or valuable or treasured classical guitar or one with repairs and that there are risks but Newtone Heritage strings are designed for those older Martins without truss rods that re often heavily repaired and they are loud and easy on these old fingers to. If you don't mind accepting the slight risk of a 12% overload (surely within design limits of a modern classical guitar?) then this produces awesome sound and playability in my opinion. I would not however put them on my treasured 1970 Taurus (also made by Senor Picado I believe) as it has already been driven over in its youth while on loan to my sister-in-law!
By the way, I have no connection with Antonio Picado or Newtone Strings other than being a very satisfied customer of their Materclass, Heritage and Mandolin family strings! They can be difficult to track down in the right gauges, presumably because they are different (being on round wound cores) and popular.
As others have pointed out, this is probably a bad idea. If you still want to consider it, mind the string tension. A typical nylon strings set has a total tension of around 80 pounds. You definitely don't want to replace that with a typical acoustic steel set, which is almost double that.
My workplace has a guitar I just used today - it has steel strings although it is a classical guitar. I noticed a couple of tuning pins already "loose" (spinning with no increase in tension on the string) and has very little volume or tone to the strings. Very hard on the fingers because of the height of the string. I would not recommend a normal set of steel strings on a classical, as people have already mentioned. It was tough to play and not particularly enjoyable either.
Not sure how long the strings have been on for - am thinking the problems suggest there is some damage to the guitar's structure. Now I'm wondering if putting nylon strings back on it will work? Will I break the neck taking the steel string off? I always replace one at a time, but the difference in tension will be very different. Any ideas?
I put some higher tension strings on my classical guitar, a Crdoba, and they were on for maybe less than a year and the bridge snapped off. There could have been other factors to this, but I imagine steel strings would be worse.
As do why you would want to do this - if you are looking for a wider neck than a standard acoustic (or electric) guitar you could look into acoustic models that have a wider neck. This allows for the steel-string tonality while allowing for fingerings more like a classical.
The soundboard top behind the bridge will rise to some degree ("bellying"), depending on the guitar. That will raise the height of the strings above the fretboard making it even harder to play and the string height will already be quite high.
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