I can answer one question Night Owl. You will see a button somewhere on the right top of the page with the index of threads on it called "Forum Search". Click on that and fill in one or more of the fields and wait--and (sometimes) wait and wait.

I have found threads over a year old there so I don't know when and if they die. There is another place on the page called "Filter Age" You can set that to a number and the threads will go back to that many days. When you first log on this is set to one--so you only see a list of one-day old threads. The others are not dead, just sleeping.

Anyway, the thread about "Toward Better Tuning" is here

More to the subject. When I was looking for my first guitar I played a Washburn classical guitar which I though felt and sounded great. I didn't get it because I was looking for an acoustic. Now I have "graduated" to solid top guitars. I would like some opinions on the cheaper classical guitars with a solid top.

Murray