Redefining Nylon
YAMAHA NCX5 & NTX5 BOTH £1,786
It’s a whole different world when it comes to amplifying an acoustic guitar to an audience
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You sometimes hear an adage about old Gibson Les Pauls: “no two sound the same”. This can also be applied to the steel-string acoustic, and perhaps more so to the nylon-string classical guitar. It’s one thing making a great-sounding acoustic guitar, but a whole different world when it comes to amplifying it to an audience. Creating a good sound in both environments, then, is challenging. But that’s exactly the design brief of Yamaha’s decade-old NX guitars. “With resolution of these problems firmly in mind, we set out to create a guitar that would satisfy in terms of design, playability and sound quality,” said Yamaha designer Kenta Hori.
But we’re not talking one guitar. If the above wasn’t enough to chew over, Yamaha created the NCX to appeal to a more classically trained (or aimed) player, while the NTX is for someone more used to a steel-string, a ‘crossover’ player.
The new models are closely based on those original
