Cordoba Luthier C9-CED Classical Nylon Guitar

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As mentioned, there is a perfect fusion of both old and new in the Cordoba C9 CD/MH guitar. Thrown into the mix are extra touches of class, including a pearloid/ebony rosette and wooden purfling around the body. Most Cordoba models come with a Spanish-stye fan bracing. The bracing is the particular arrangement of wooden struts below the top wood, an arrangement optimised for generating great volume and resonance. For a different experience, if you can increase your budget a little (but less than you’d pay for a C10), you can get arguably a better guitar – made in Bulgaria. Read my review of the Kremona Fiesta classical guitar as an excellent option to consider. Decision time And to performance, customers were obviously in love. In fact, one described the tone of one C9 guitar as being authoritative. In their words “the voice of God speaks through this guitar” 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?The beautiful thing about the Cordoba C10 is that it comes with a whole array of options. Cordoba created this series such that you can almost definitely say that there’s something for everyone in the series. So, a whole range of guitarists would find a guitar for themselves in this series. Alright, that said, spruce tops have a pretty different feel and sound from cedar. Where cedar gives you a warm and dark tone, spruce sounds a little more striking like a bell. So, spruce does not have that full, encompassing tone that cedar comes with. 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. Just an update: I did more research and also had experienced guitarists test both models. I went ahead and bought the C10 (spruce/indian rosewood). I really love it. The playability of this guitar is a huge step up compared with my old C3W, now I am surprised and even regret that I have put up with my C3W for so long. I love deep and loud bass and the clarify of my treble strings. Now I can do certain things that I can't do in my old guitar. Barre for the F chord seems much easier. I can play for much longer time without feeling tired. 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.

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. So as against ‘toy versions’ like the 1/2 guitar or 3/4 guitar, the Parlor-size variant is a serious guitar from any manufacturer because the 630 mm size is taken seriously by luthiers and players alike. (Even top luthiers like Marcus Dominelli offer 630 mm guitars in their range.)

A reduction of 20 mm may not seem like much but it provides players with a shorter frame good reach and playability across frets without losing the full bodied sound in any appreciable way. 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. 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. The parlor guitar and cedar top seemed to get the loving the most. The parlor guitar, obviously for its size which resonated with many smallish people.