The nylon string solid body guitar

If you are a finger-style guitarist with a light touch then maybe you’d like to try a nylon string solid body guitar.
A great sound without the pesky feedback! Solid body electric guitars have a fine way of interacting with the player, and nylon strings give that romantic sound. The Piezo element is vibrating along with your string, and sends an electronic signal to a preamp inside the guitar. This eliminates the need for steel strings, working with a magnetic pickup.
Here’s a quote from Pro Music News:
“The late Chet Atkins, legendary guitarist and record producer, came to Gibson in 1981 with an idea for a nylon-string acoustic guitar with a solid body, so that it could played onstage at high volume without feedback. Gibson introduced the first of the ’solidbody acoustics’ in 1981, and they were adopted by a wide range of players, from Willie Nelson to Earl Klugh.
In 2003, Gibson moved production of the nylon-string line to the acoustic specialists at Gibson Montana, and the Bozeman-based division began designing a new model, the Chet Atkins Studio. The Studio features fully hollow thin body for increased acoustic volume, braces and tone bars underneath the top carefully placed to match the tone of guitars made famous by Ramirez and other Spanish builders, Gibson Songwriter Deluxe style bridge, circular rosewood plate inlaid on the upper top bout to house, 4-band EQ with volume control as well as an oval soundhole in the lower back of the guitar to enhance the player’s acoustic experience.
The Chet Atkins Studio CE has standard nut width of 1.75 inches, the Studio CEC the classical nut width of 2 inches.”

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