Well, among other things, you can hear a steel string from more than 3' (1 m.) away. Further, I've never heard anyone successfully use a slide on a classical guitar, or bend the strings in a way that didn't sound silly.

I always felt that the classical guitar is the instrument of choice for playing ... classical guitar music. For nearly any other type of music, it sounds better (this is subjective, I know) on a steel-string.

That, and classical guitars remind me of my ex-wife.

O..O Alex
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