as starter, my budget is around 400.yamaha really has cheap classical guitars lol.n i prefer nylon strings...possible whole set

to mention my liking..i would want a beige or maple colour like surface..what wood is that?

here to bring back some old topics....hehe...
for those two guitars....yup...i've tried them both b4....thou yamaha 201s is a full solid but somehow it just dont give  a very spanish type classical tone....same as manuel rodriguez.....infact....2k for MR guitars are not worth it...

If u spending 2k on classical guitar...i would like to recommend other brands like alhambra....madrigal....or admira....anytime better than yamaha 201s or the 2k manuel rodriguez

If ur willing to spend more....go for Jose ramirez,Esteve....haha

ic ic but if you going for the spanish tone might as well get a flamenco guitar?

and has anyone tried bringing in a guitar from spain? i knew a teacher who had his classical guitar from spain. . . cost less than 4k and sounds better than his 12k MR. . . lolz. . .

the word "good price" doesn't exist in mahogany.....guitar collection and the guitar store would be a better choice....if ur budget is around 2k....juz try out the guitar i recommend in the early post....

no point go to spain n buy la....when u calculate back the travel n lodging expenses....the price would be juz the same or maybe more than here....if kena tax from custom u haf to pay another 10%-15%

so....juz get a decent guitar will fo....2k guitar consider very nice liao.....more importantly is practice ur playing lo....like my guitar teacher....he is the runner up for classical guitar competetition back in 10 or 20yrs.....he now using yamaha c-70 only which cost less 400 bucks....

hey man.....pls dont post ur sales here....u can put it in the garage sales thread n link it to here....

as for the guitar u'r looking for....u can go for martin's OM,Taylor GC or GS,Maton BG808, if u'r willing to spend 4k n above....

lower range would be Taylor Big Baby,Seagull S6 folk for abt 1.7k

if u want custom made guitar can go for Freeman guitars....the luthier is my teacher...so if interested can let me know lo....

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Added on May 5, 2007, 1:02 am

201s is juz the highest end among all the yamaha factory made guitars...y spend 2k on a factory made guitar,thou it's a full solid wood guitar but still the sound is nothing impressing....

so.muz well u spend 2k on a hand-made spanish guitar...thou with laminated back&sides but the sound can beat 201s anytime...for 2k can get a guitar together with a hard case lo....

i've tried 201s....the guitar looks very nice indeed but the sound is juz fair...actually guitar collection at ttdi got alot of good choices...i kinda know the boss there....very helpful....he maybe can to give u a 10-15% discount....

I'm planning to get myself a new classical guitar. Budget around RM400-500 as I started to dislike my cheap RM100 guitar's sound. I prefer the sound to be something thicker and rounder. Any recommendations? I don't mind spending a little more but not more than RM600. I know that its not big money that I'm forking out but I'm just trying to get the best from that price range.

Thanks.

there's alot of good strings around....d'addario,la bella,augustine,savarez....the best string tension to use is normal tension...coz high tension will make ut top buldge at the bride n will be the action higher....this case will even happen on a rm8k guitar(mostly refer to solid top guitars)....unless u modified the bracing n add reinforcement to the bridge part like i did to my alhambra 1P....now sound even better n louder...so that i can now use hard tension without much worries...

if ur looking for a classical guitar withing ur budget....try out valencia(can get in woh fatt)...with ur budget i think can get a solid top wan edi....or go for yamaha 111C....it's abt rm700...c-80 looks nice but not worthy to buy....111C/S i think is the best for u at the moment....but give valencia a try too....the got some decent guitar within ur budget...

come on man....dun ever go for cuenca....not really nice guitars...esteve is way better than cuenca...yet reasonanle....

Hey guys, just found this thread. Classical/flamenco guitarist reporting in. I'll be taking Yamaha grade 6 next year march. Passing that, i should be teacher level.
Currently using a Valencia Custom Limited. You don't get many of those lol heres what it looks like Valencia Custom LTD Mine is number 109 xD
I plan to sell this later on and buy a better classical lol

Anyone tried playing romance d'amour with tremolo? it sounds 10x better than the original. A real spanish feel to it lol.

Btw, Kapok suck, period. Never consider buying them as your first guitar. NEVER!!!! You want a cheap and decent one, yamaha offers those. I think about RM200 or so you can get a cheap, decent guitar. If you don't think its worth the money, then don't learn it. I always say, Music is not a cheap thing, it takes money, time and effort to master.
Heck, there are even RM50k guitars. Conde Hermanos for example. Ive even tried it, and its NOTHING like any of your guitars. Totally on a different level man. Imagine, RM50k can even buy kancil, thats how much this classical guitar is worth @_@

Reeve.X: hehehe true true... i guess we can start with small group of people first.

Ryuuga: hmm, whoose place can we jam in? or do u know of any public places where we can rent an empty room to practice? some music schools offers this as far as i know.

haha ryuuga then u look for a spot in subang la.. just see roughly where lo.. how many pieces per-person? gotta start practicing lo.. lol...

I'll let u know something....of coz in order to play good u muz enjoy the music...but when u meet up ppl with professional view they will mostly pin point technical parts n some how i felt that they r neglecting the music itself...so still back to the beginning lo...as long u enjoy playing it...it's  good music...

jam for classical song? so beginning level also can join ah?

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Added on November 16, 2007, 11:36 pm
my friend own a esteve, i think around RM4k the time.. so if compare 4k esteve vs 4k cuenca which better?
beside around 3k can get which model for cuence? 70R?
any good recommand within this range, now saving money hope can get a nice guitar in future.

donno, i always use ultimate-guitar.com

Its totally in chinese dude... I can't read it for nuts xD (blardy banana here)

Try classtab.org