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Originally Posted by Jeff M
As long as you don't care that it will make your Baby Taylor sound much worse,
yes, you can.
Steel string guitars like the Baby Taylor are braced heavy to with stand the pull of the steel strings. Not a problem with steel strings, as they transmit much more energy to the top with that extra tension.
Nylon strings exert much less pull...hence transmit much less driving energy to the top.
That's why nylon stringed guitars are braced lightly, close to the edge of implosion, to get all they driving energy they can from the nylon strings.
(Just saw that Herb said the same thing. Sorry to repeat.)
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No. Classical guitars are braced as much as they need to be to withstand the tension of the strings. When steel string guitars were developed from classical guitars it was found necessary to use heavier bracing because of the higher tension of the steel strings.
But that does not mean that nylon strings will not work on a steel string guitar. It is the amplitude of vibration of the string that produces the sound - obviously the tension of the string contributes to this but not so much as to negate the other factors.
Here are two vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYHvI0bguLQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHwAKLZp4zY
Listen to both and tell me how the sound differs.