Yamaha Silent Guitar... Anyone Played One ?

Winny_Pooh

@Alnico I reckon on budget guitars it's just the usual reasons. Serious classical guitar players are quite obsessed with tone and perform unamplified so high action helps with volume and projection.

BigLicks67

Also, nylon strings have less tension and vibrate more freely, so need more room to do so. Your tone would be a bit shit if all you could hear is the strings slapping against the frets. However, if u want a traditional nylon string with a low action then buy a flamenco guitar, they need the speed, so go for a much lower action.

Wazmeister

Ok, I played one today - well two actually, steel and nylon string...

They sound a lot better than they play imho. In fact, the sound is superb - it really is good especially the 'modelled' side of the acoustic. I play it through a Fishman Loudbox (mini ?).

The actual action was a bit high for me liking, and it was stiff to play... but as I said, beautiful sounding.

Alnico

Winny_Pooh said:

@Alnico I reckon on budget guitars it's just the usual reasons. Serious classical guitar players are quite obsessed with tone and perform unamplified so high action helps with volume and projection.

BigLicks67 said:

Also, nylon strings have less tension and vibrate more freely, so need more room to do so. Your tone would be a bit shit if all you could hear is the strings slapping against the frets. However, if u want a traditional nylon string with a low action then buy a flamenco guitar, they need the speed, so go for a much lower action.

Thanks Guys.
I guess that clears it up a bit.