what is the difference between a classical guitar and a regular guitar?

Question

i was just wondering. THANK YOU

Answer 1

Most classical guitars have catgut strings and reg guitars have steel strings. Classical is a smaller guitar. But bigger frets.

Answer 2

LOL the Guitargadfly is, as usual, tickled with the replies here. Some of them are plain wrong, others half right, and still others funny.
I like the lady who said "a classic guitar is regular
like classic Coke is regular." She is right, you know. The Classical guitar predates all the rest of them by hundreds of years. ALL guitars in existence today are evolutions of the Classical guitar.
Just to clear up some of the sort-of answers you got here: Classical guitars today do NOT use cat gut strings. In fact no one ever used cat gut - it was sheep gut! The only guitarist today who would use sheep gut would be a Baroque guitarist playing a "period" guitar - the guitar as it was in the Baroque era, with five double strings and a reentrant tuning. (Google that , no time to explain it.)
Classical guitars have one distinguishing feature that most people do not notice. The body meets the neck at the at the 12th fret!!! On a steel string guitar, the body meets the neck at the 14th fret!!!
Now, to call a steel string an "acoustic" is a misnomer. Classical guitars are acoustic.
Hmmm, here, I'm just going to list some things so I don't type all day :
Classical guitar: neck meets body at fret 12, lighter bracing inside due to NYLON strings which don't pull hard on the top and neck, tops usually of cedar or spruce, backs and sides are mahogany of rosewood. Fingerboards ebony or rosewood. Wider necks ( not "bigger frets") allow for wider string spacing so the player may easily "fingerpick" with the right hand.
Steel string: neck meets body at fret 14, very heavy bracing under the top to resist the pull of steel strings, tops of spruce or sometimes cedar, backs and sides of lots of stuff depending on the maker - lol - fingerboards rosewood or ebony. Narrower neck to allow player to use a pick in the right hand without missing between strings.
The music is usually different too: Classical music for a classical guitar, popular on a steel string.... but the lines are blurred all the time by players - such as Willy Nelson , who plays country on a classical guitar.

Answer 3

Besides a classical having nylon/cat gut with steel wound silk core strings & larger frets & a standard acoustic guitar having plain unwound stirngs with steel or brass core strings, their construction inside is also different.

The bracing on the underside of the tops of the guitars are completely different as is usually the woods used for the construction of the two different guitars.

Classical guitars of quality normaly use solid cedar wood tops with rosewood sides, back & neck with usually an ebony fingerboard all for the subtleties of playing from pianisimo (very soft) to fortissimo (very loud.

Standard acoustic guitars of quality usualy have a solid spruce wood top (although there are a great number of quality excellent quality ply-wood topped guitars) with mahogany back, sides, & neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Since most acoustic steel string guitars were made to be flat picked primarily the woods are a little softer than the classical guitars.

Answer 4

regularly i might say take the class the place you get to play the track you regularly hear to . . . in case you opt to get uncovered to a diverse sort of track, that's ok, yet do no longer take a classification because of the fact which you experience obligated to. Sight-reading will are available in fairly reachable interior the classical guitar classification--yet once you do no longer sight-study, do no longer enable that stop you . . . communicate with the instructor first and locate out regardless of if or no longer they require it. actually, that would desire to be a solid approach in maximum situations--communicate with the two instructors earlier and notice if that makes you lean in direction of one classification or the different. Classical and pa guitar techniques are diverse--in classical, the thumb of the fretting hand continues to be on the middle of the back of the neck in any respect situations, mutually as the strumming hand makes use of no possibilities, in basic terms long fingernails. This differs from blues guitar, the place the thumb of the fretting hand regularly loops around the better fringe of the neck to help be concerned notes on the backside string. As for the strumming hand, in usual varieties, that's often conserving a %.. the actual gadgets are diverse, too. A classical guitar makes use of nylon strings and has an excellent neck (to help play individual notes). a rustic/individuals/blues guitar makes use of steel strings (for bigger quantity) and has a slender neck (to make taking part in chords much less stressful). This looks like a controversy to stick to a minimum of one classification or yet another--yet actually, taking the two instructions might assist you enjoy and revel interior the variations! actually relies upon on what you're up for :-)

Answer 5

I've always been taught that an acoustic classical guitar is a guitar with nylon strings, whereas an acoustic steel string guitar is different.

You can tell just by looking at them, which one's which, by the stings, the shape, the width of the next, the head, the weight, etc. etc.

Answer 6

a classic guitar is regular
like classic Coke is regular
all the other guitars have special names like Mandolin, Baroque, Flat-top, Archtop, Resonator, 12 string

Answer 7

one other difference other then the ones above is classical guitars have nylon strings

Answer 8

well im not a guitar know it all, but my husband plays and i can tell you that the different brand of guitars they sound different, and with different music you play you use different sounds...

Answer 9

one is classy and one is regular

Answer 10

Nothing Much. :-|