Those options first manifest themselves in how you want to play the guitar. Noodling alone at home is fine this will do for practising, when, after all, it’s usually better the fewer people can hear you. Not to mention that strumming this acoustically does not deliver the full-blooded voice of any acoustic we have played. The controls, the body’s subtle rib contour and neck heel, the proportions and how that body sits nicely balanced whether on a strap or seated, and the output jack, mounted on the side of the instrument as opposed to an end-pin jack/strap button, all point to an electric. The bridge, the finish, the neck feel – the string feel – and the slotted headstock all give you that acoustic nylon-string vibe. Like other hybrids, the Córdoba Stage has players keeping score as to the electric and acoustic features. (Image credit: Future / Phil Barker) Córdoba Stage: Performance and verdict Be they steel-stringers or with smaller hands, this makes for a more accommodating and welcoming proposition. With a 16” fingerboard radius and a 48mm nut width, the Stage offers a thinner platform for players. Hitherto, such bold new designs have largely been introduced at a pro price point, but, tellingly, Córdoba is debuting the Stage at a budget-friendly price point, aimed at amateurs and jobbing pros, who want no fuss, no feedback, no quack from their amplified nylon-string tones.Īrriving when next-gen guitar heroes such as Tim Henson and Scott LePage of Polyphia are leading a pop-cultural resurgence in the nylon-string guitar, the Stage’s timing could not be better. Similarly, both look to offer dimensions and a playing experience that welcomes steel-stringers fretting their first notes in the brave new (old) world of nylon. You’ll find a pearloid version of this logo on guitars such as the Fusion model, a guitar from which the Stage takes a little of its design cues.
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