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 ...

Struggling to tell your dreadnought from parlor ... Classical guitars opt for softer nylon strings, while acoustic guitars use steel strings. Nylon strings have considerably less tension than ...

But specifically, these Dreadnought guitars for bluegrass music—you gotta have one." The Billy Strings Signature D-28 is inspired by Strings' own treasured 1940 D-28. The instrument is designed ...