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Old 12-21-2020, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by nikpearson View Post
The tension on nylon strings is typically around 60% of a light gauge steel string set. This reduced tension means the strings can have more amplitude when plucked and a higher action is required. Standard setup on a classical guitar is 4mm on the low-E to 3mm on the high-E. This balances playability without restricting how loud you can play. A fairly standard steel-string action is 2.5mm to 2.0mm low-E to high-E. This simply won’t work on a nylon string instrument for the majority of pieces.
Agreed. I have a Fusion 12 (Maple). Wonder what the differences from the "5" are.
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