Hi Jhony, and welcome.
What we call the classical guitar was strung with gut or nylon strings and was rather fragile.
In he USA during the 10th century, music was changing and people were travelling west and guitars and fiddles 9and banjos) were relatively light - but fragile.
Steel strings were developed which were stringer and lasted longer.
Most early "C.F.Martin" and other US based makers made for gut strings initially but as late as , I think 1927, Martin started stressing guitars for steel strings (Gibson had pretty much always made steel string guitars and mandolins).
Gibson made 13/14 fret archtop guitars from about 1908.
Martin made steel string guitars with 12 frets (to body) (up until 1929 (not a great success) then the dreadnought in 1934 (which was).
music styles evolved quickly and so did guitars.
it is my personal opinion that the pre 1934 design were superior and fortunately there are still makers which make to those earlier designs, such as Collings :
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Silly Moustache,
Just an old Limey acoustic guitarist, Dobrolist, mandolier and singer.
I'm here to try to help and advise and I offer one to one lessons/meetings/mentoring via Zoom!
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