Cordoba Luthier C9-CED Classical Nylon Guitar

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Generally speaking, classical guitars are easier to learn than acoustic guitars. However, the gap in the difficulty of learning between these two guitar types isn’t much. With a little more experienced, you’ll come to realize that both types of guitars are not hard to play. As a result, we feel that this should not be a determining factor when deciding which guitar to learn. Rather, what you want out of the guitar should be. Choosing the best classical guitarist in the world is a highly subjective topic. Many classical guitar lovers have split opinions. However, when the topic comes up for discussion, a handful of names readily come to mind. Of course, mahogany is not without its benefits. First off, when sourced properly, mahogany is a really beautiful wood especially when stained. When paired with either a cedar top or a spruce top, it comes out brilliant. So, that’s score one for mahogany.

The Acoustic and Classical guitars are two different types of guitars and serve slightly different purposes. Acoustic guitars are suited to modern music and allow for more experimentation if you are one who likes to try out new things. The problem with this guitar is that it seems to have a loose brace, which makes a buzz noise coming from the bridge and the top around the bridge. You can hear it when playing and tapping the top. To keep the guitar this would have to be fixed. The C-9 is so lightweight i thought it would float away to the ceiling when I first took it out of its box. The guitar is well constructed and well finished. I found no flaws in joinery or finish.There are a number of reasons why your guitar strings might be too hard to press down. If your action height is too high, this will most definitely make your strings feel harder to press as you’ll have to use more force. There is the usual cedar and spruce top variety which is pretty commonplace. However, in addition to these, you also have the parlor size which is great for players who are smaller in size. It’s a 7/8 sized guitar, so it’s not full-sized. The Cordoba C7 guitars are part of the line of Luthier Series from Cordoba guitars. Although Cordoba Music Group has a factory at their headquarters in Oxnard, California, virtually all of the Luthier series guitars are manufactured in China. The choice to go with nylon or steel strings is dependent on the kind of music you want to play. Classical guitars often come with nylon strings while Acoustic guitars could come in either steel or nylon strings. Cordoba Luthier – Handcrafted in China using traditional methods and solid tonewoods offering an extensive range of concert level instruments at a very affordable price. Models such as the Cordoba C9 and C10 prove very popular.

Of course, this is quite understandable being that the C9 is the most affordable guitar in the Luthier series. Of course, this also impacts the tone of the C9 guitars and the C10 sounds a bit higher end. This is not to say that they don’t sound great though. Of course, they do. You can’t compare them to the guitars in the Iberia series for instance. Ebony is not a common wood choice for guitar fingerboards. However, it is also a high-end choice, so it’s still another great choice. If you’ve not already guessed, this is another score for the C10 in the Cordoba C10 vs C9 battle. And the other is a C9 Parlor version which is Cordoba-speak for a slightly smaller guitar for adults with small hands. This is a particularly excellent guitar for that purpose with a reduced scale length of 630 mm instead of the regular 650 mm.We told you not many people would be able to differentiate between the tone of the C9 and the C10. This is all the proof you need.

So there we have it – the C9’s features, its price and its ambition to woo the serious, advanced student. The C9 enters the stage with a promise of a beautiful concert instrument with an affordable price tag. Cordoba Guitars was founded in 1997 by Tim Miklaucic, a leading nylon string expert who studied classical guitar under the guidance of his mentor, Celin Romero. His vision was simple; to preserve, nurture and continue the evolution of the nylon-strung guitar by building on the techniques of early master luthiers and adding modern developments. If I were one such student, would I be tempted to try? You bet I would. Thousands of others already have and they’ve gone home happy. The online forums are full of them. The C9 is a popular model in the Cordoba stable and understandably so.For instance, say you want to play for something intimate, for a lover probably, cedar top guitars work. Because the guitar comes out sounding full, it doesn’t punch all the individual notes of a chord, so it sounds more seamless and free-flowing ish. From an earlier intermediate stage, the C9 is definitely a worthy step up. It is feature-rich and highly regarded. But are we pushing it if we claim it to be a concert guitar? Now, all that said, it’s important to keep in mind that the C10 is still pretty much a student guitar and you can tell from a few things. The tone is mellow, what you expect form cedar, but also full and the notes have "depth" to them. It has good projection due to it being a full classical body, unlike most other crossover guitars, which have shallower bodies and thinner bodies.

The aesthetic of the guitar is noteworthy. Cordoba has taken its looks as seriously as its playability, it appears. The appearance reeks of the stature it aims to reach. Taking all that into consideration, the C9 comes across as a superior instrument although lightweight in construction (again like most Cordoba guitars). Its sound has been described as something with a punchy midrange.Cordoba is going all out in the detailing of the C9 to tell you to take it seriously as a worthy, superior instrument. And many agree that it is so. At the affordable price it is at, it’s easy to forget that it’s actually a highly recommended, well attested guitar. However, to bring it down to the fundamentals, both guitar series offer excellent tones. Nonetheless, none of them quite hits that exclusive high-end tone. Of course, the C10 is better but it still has that plastic tone at some point. For most people, the C9 performed way better than its price tag. Many users who used this guitar confessed to feeling reluctant initially to spending that much on a guitar. However, when they got to play. They felt they got more than their money’s worth.