Sentence examples for nylon-string guitar from inspiring English sources

He finished the set with O Holy Night, played solo on a nylon-string guitar.

"It gives you the impression people were playing these pretty little nylon-string guitar ballads," says Oliver-Goodwin.

He doesn't sleep much, but sometimes he brings along a nylon-string guitar and relaxes by playing Beatles songs, Spanish laments, and show tunes.

Mr. Cantuária, playing a nylon-string guitar with a hint of echo, made little attempt to compensate, residing in the realm of understatement.

It's acoustic music, with string arrangements, nylon-string guitar, violin, harmonium, flute, and some minimal percussion on the order of hand claps, shakers, tiny bells.

Alone onstage with a nylon-string guitar and some electronic gadgets, he had a rapt audience leaning in closely to savor his pensive, puckish songs.

Cumulatively the set had more guitars than drums, and for one long section Mr. Sorey removed himself from the drum kit and watched the other musicians playing nylon-string guitars.

And perhaps more crucial, he is committed to using amplification, often sending the relatively light sound of his nylon-string guitars through a computer, which lets him manipulate timbres, reverberation and stereo placement.

His first, "Songs for the Disappeared," from 2009, sounded like a résumé for a serious nonclassical guitarist: prepared nylon-string guitars played in uneven rhythm cycles, in speedy, cycling arpeggios running through strange and intuitive harmonic motion, in uneven meter or in rhythmic waves.

Its singer, China, has just made his first solo EP, "Um Só" (Cardume/EMI Brasil), and it's got that same ungainly grace to it, as he yells about love and bureaucracy over electronics, echoey punk, dub-reggae and nylon-string guitars.

Soriano's sound is rootsy, though he doesn't play the unamplified nylon-string guitars that early bachateros used.