Electric Classicals - how they work ?

I've been on the Santos Martinez Web site, and the're advertising electrified acoustic classicals with nylon strings.
Normally steel strings are needed to cut the magnetic flux around the pick up magnet and induce a tiny current in to the pick up coils
Much Curious ?

piezo p/u's don't function in the same manner as a conventional pickup. They operate off of pressure and vibration. this is why you would never shim an acoustic bridge that uses a piezo, as contact from the bridge to the p/u is crucial. Any work to raise (requires a new bridge, preferably bone) or lower a bridge on a pieze equiped acoustic should be left to an experienced luthier/tech.


Godin makes a line of exceptional electric/nylon stringed instruments as well.


If you need more info I would suggest e-mailing the manufacture.

Many Thanks

Check out the Slash Custom Les Paul.... that's a sweet axe... I've been wanting to build a Warmoth just like it. Classic LP electronics with a Piezo in the bridge... Its a cool design. The no-pickup LP with a piezo would be pretty slick too..... it would look like one of those Line 6 Variax guitars...