Recommend me a classical nylon guitar...

[jim777]

I'm also hearing very good things about the Yamaha 151 and 171 guitars, and the Aria AC-35. My understand is that all of these are in the near $300 range.

[Carless Walker]

I have a Spruce top Rodriguez I have owned for a number of years, I adore it. More recently, I found my self wandering around the seventh level of hell, ( aka, hell of a thousand noises, or more commonly Guitar Center) and played a cedar top Rodriguez, it too was quite the player, nice tone, and I think it was in the $250 - $350 range.

[Neoclasiccl]

classical guitars are in a class by themselves price wise. Check out this site for some of the crazy priced ones.

http://www.guitarsalon.com/

[Stinkbug]

Look for one with a solid top.

Takamine used to makes some decent low priced guitars.

When I used to work in a guitar shop we would get in batches of guitars and I would have to tune them and put them out. I noticed that with the cheaper guitars most would kind of suck, but every now and then one would be really nice. Just variability in manufacture I guess. My point being...if you want a cheap one play lots of them until you find one you like.

I have an old Ibanez GA120S. My teacher (~ 20 years ago) started getting me into classical guitar. One day this guitar came in (used I think). He and the owner said "Buy This!"...so I did. I only paid a couple hundred for it. It is a great guitar and plays much better than most of the $3K+ stuff at GC. I think it was a rare gem, but you can find them if you look.

[petedz]

If you can find one, get an old 70s Guild. They kick ass.

[goodwood]

Like this one? http://cgi.ebay.com/La-Patrie-Godin-...QQcmdZViewItem


Edit: I just looked some of the specs up... and on any of the ones Id be able to afford, the back and sides are all laminate, so theyre out.

Just thought I'd let you know that I have one of these. Fantastic little guitar and the top is solid which is the most important element. It sounds fantastic.

I would guess that you will have a very inflated budget if you want all solid.

That Takamine G128S is NOT solid back and sides.

[axeman81]

Alhambra makes very nice classical guitars in all price ranges, but I don't know what their US distribution is like.

http://www.alhambrasl.com/fremp_i.htm

[Newc]

Took a chance and hit this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290199621038

Full review when I get it.

[jim777]

Nice