Classical Guitar or Nylon String Guitar: What is the best terminology?

Following post we received from Carolien touches upon a preference for the term “Nylon string guitar”.

She says in her post:

I think a better terminology is Nylon String Guitar (when used in Rock or Metal).

But Guitarists use a Nylon String Guitar to play Classical Style Compositions. Classical as in Genre. Actually, both in Progressive Rock and Progressive Metal Nylon String Guitar is quite Frequently used. Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Fates Warning, Dream Theater, Ect Ect. Even many more extreme progressive Death Metal bands use Nylon String Guitar in their songs. Even Cryptopsy. I would say other than Ambient and Ominous type melodies Flamenco style is also used a lot in Prog Rock and Metal.

I use it a lot myself and I am a Prog Metal / Death Metal musician.
Cheers. But yes technically the Nylon String is often referred to as Classical guitar but more when the Piece is Classical Music in genre
By: Carolien

My take on this is that those distinctions are personal choices and opinions. I personally never put much importance on names or labels. Classical guitar and nylon-string are really synonyms. Both names refer to the exact same thing: the type of guitar that is used by classical guitarists to play classical guitar music, which has nylon strings.

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