Grandpa’s guitar. (45)

[whvick]

Today I was examining a 17 year old girl who ran cross country, was a cheer-leader and kept a 4.0 average. She has landed full academic scholarship offers from several schools. I laughed and said “do you play guitar?” Thinking she had no extra time for any hobbies.
I was surprised when she said she did. I gave her a pick and asked if she had any guitar stories?
She said she had a steel string acoustic, but more and more she was enjoying a nylon string guitar her grandfather had given her. One thing she liked was that
“The strings are still good after several years.”
I figured that she was intimidated about tying off nylon strings at the bridge. I suggested that she could get ball-end folk nylon strings, and watch YouTube on how to change them. I also suggested some online sites to order strings.
She brightened with the suggestions.
I enjoyed this exchange with with this remarkable young lady, and felt good to help out a younger player.

[RickRS]

I've never found nylon strings to be some strange foreign thing. No need for ball end folk strings, tying off nylon strings on a classic is literally a couple of wraps and pull tight.

Here's a short video on the bridge 'knot', from Cordoba. I've always use what they call the treble string knot for all six strings. Holds tight every time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw84_0KHTI