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 ...

A Grammy nominee for her latest album, 'One Guitar Woman,' Foley offers essential advice for electric and acoustic blues players ...

Just like acoustic guitars, classical guitars have a wooden body with six strings. The strings, however, are slightly different: they're usually made of nylon or gut, unlike the metal strings used on ...