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I may be the only one to think of this however rather than tapping on a good guitar and ruining the finish and guitar, why don't they hire a drummer? I always thought the best guitarist could play any song and all you hear are clear notes. No sliding or string noise should be heard.

Some of the students I taught started calling me CG and that was short for Classical Guitar. It has nothing to do with my real name, so when I registered I used Classical Guitar, because CG just seemed to short.

One final update. After changing back to bone the one I built was built right. The real problem is the knowing what blank wood has the right tonal quality to start with from the beginning. The same would be true for any classical or acoustic guitar. So I wasted a lot of time except I have a good setup and if I try it again I will buy my blanks from someone who knows what good wood should sound like.

I enjoyed poem /song and it shows some very good writing. You said a lot with each verse. Well done.

That is a gorgeous baby. You might have to wait just a little while for the for him to start playing. I agree with the photo to be in a music shop and that was a good idea. I

Tyson7  I do not use Chrome and use Firefox instead and use ad block plus and use the private browser option for Firefox. Firefox is a safer browser than Google Chrome. I also use Duck Duck Go for my default search engine because it does not sell advertising.

I use a soft top both  stool when I practice at home and when I do a concert and both allow my feat to stay flat. Years ago I went to a concert by a great player and he used a left leg lift and after he played for an hour and stood up his left leg was numb and he feel when he tried to stand. So I have never used a leg lift although I did try one for an hour and I found it very uncomfortable.

Some use a chair to play in concerts and the back of a chair is a good way to bang up a good guitar.

I am glad that some of you use the center for position more than I have realized.  Thank you .

Bill and Doug_Smith my first classical guitar cost the least of any Yamaha at the time and I played mostly folk music on it. I was self–taught and was using my thumb and two fingers. I and two others practiced singing and played at local restaurants on week ends. After that I got serious and took serious lessons from very good teacher that lived an hour from where I lived. I worked hard and learned the "right way" to play. I was told then I had a very good ear and within a few months I was playing Moonlight Sonata and some others. At my first recital my teacher told me he could not teach me more and another teacher heard my recital and offered to teach me  and I took lessons from him for another year. I went to college for 6 years and still played and practiced. I worked my up in a local industry to senior vp and on weekends I stated to do some concerts.I  was lucky enough to retire early and took my playing and doing concerts to another level and also started teaching others too.  Although both teachers wanted me to look at my fingers when I played I never did and and I teach my students to play and I still teach them correctly and not to look at their guitar either. If you feel what you play  and all classical guitars are the same size you don't have to watch yourself to play.

Russell_Harding I agree with you. With my normal 6 guitars that are the top of the line in Yamaha Classical I just received the Cordoba C10 and love the sound, not better than the Yamaha just different.. I also bought 6 Yamaha 40 to stock for new students as starter guitars.I always bought them at a great price and I charge my students what I paid. I fairly recently started using one of them and practice on it for several weeks. It is one of the cheapest and most mass produced Yamaha ever made. It  has low action and sounds good. It is a full size classical and all sides are laminated and when I play it, it still sounds good.

Just to mention it the Cordoba C10 and all Cordoba classical has truss rods and is the only classical I have played that has truss rods. I always felt and still do that if they are built properly truss rods are not needed. ( I know that steel string guitars need truss rods because of stings pressure.)

Botth videos were really good and you did seem very relaxed. CurtRHCP you should be proud of those performances.