Subj : Acoustic or Spanish?
To   : JENN COWFISH
From : BRETT MCCOY
Date : Mon Oct 30 2000 10:39 pm

> I recently got a second hand guitar from a friend of the family's...I
> checked out some books as to how to play etc. and I noticed a few
> pictures of acoustic and Spanish/classical guitars. I looked at my
> guitar, which I thought was acoustic, but I noticed it looked slightly
> like a Spanish guitar as well. There isn't any visible model number
> or brand name on my guitar, so I'm unable to refer to anythign...Are
> there any distinct differences in the looks of a Spanish and acoustic
> guitar?

Definitely.  The spanish/classical guitar has a smaller body, a wider neck,
and typically has 
nylon or gut strings.  The classical guitar also has a very distinctive
rosette around the sound 
hole that most steel-string acoustics don't have, nor does it have a pick
guard, since classical 
guitars are exclusively finger-picked.

-- Bret
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