Cordoba Luthier C9-CED Classical Nylon Guitar

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For a different experience, if you can increase your budget a little (but less than you’d pay for a C10), you can get arguably a better guitar – made in Bulgaria. Read my review of the Kremona Fiesta classical guitar as an excellent option to consider. Decision time Most Cordoba models come with a Spanish-stye fan bracing. The bracing is the particular arrangement of wooden struts below the top wood, an arrangement optimised for generating great volume and resonance. The Cordoba C9 also has three guitars in the series which are cedar top guitars. These guitars are: Now, buzzing was another problem encountered. However, this was on the customers not Cordoba. There are ways to ensure that your guitar stays in tip-top condition especially as it pertains to humidity to prevent buzzing.

The Cordoba C9 is pretty similar to the C10 in the variety of options you get. Both guitars actually have the same selection of guitars which means more for more kinds of guitarists. Accomplished guitarists save their ultimate drool for names like Kenny Hill, Marcus Dominelli and a few dozen more names from across the pond. Even the over achieving elder brother, the C10, has an edge when it comes to sound quality. Cordoba C10 CD/IN Acoustic Nylon String Classical Guitar, Cordoba C10 Parlor CD Acoustic Nylon String Parlor Size Guitar, and the Cordoba C10 Lefty Guitar If you’re considering a 7/8 (630 mm) guitar, I highly recommend my fuller discussion of 630 mm guitars. It gives tips and suggests options on the broader topic.The tone is mellow, what you expect form cedar, but also full and the notes have "depth" to them. It has good projection due to it being a full classical body, unlike most other crossover guitars, which have shallower bodies and thinner bodies.

If I were one such student, would I be tempted to try? You bet I would. Thousands of others already have and they’ve gone home happy. The online forums are full of them. The C9 is a popular model in the Cordoba stable and understandably so. With the introduction of the C10 Parlor, Cordoba decided to rename the model previously titled “C9 Dolce” to “C9 Parlor.” We felt the word “Parlor” was a better, more universal descriptor of a small body instrument. No features of the guitar were changed aside from the name. For most people, the C9 performed way better than its price tag. Many users who used this guitar confessed to feeling reluctant initially to spending that much on a guitar. However, when they got to play. They felt they got more than their money’s worth.

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Taking all that into consideration, the C9 comes across as a superior instrument although lightweight in construction (again like most Cordoba guitars). Its sound has been described as something with a punchy midrange. The problem with this guitar is that it seems to have a loose brace, which makes a buzz noise coming from the bridge and the top around the bridge. You can hear it when playing and tapping the top. To keep the guitar this would have to be fixed. Of course, this is quite understandable being that the C9 is the most affordable guitar in the Luthier series. Of course, this also impacts the tone of the C9 guitars and the C10 sounds a bit higher end. This is not to say that they don’t sound great though. Of course, they do. You can’t compare them to the guitars in the Iberia series for instance. So there we have it – the C9’s features, its price and its ambition to woo the serious, advanced student. The C9 enters the stage with a promise of a beautiful concert instrument with an affordable price tag.