I am enjoying playing both steel string and nylon string guitars. The Cordoba C10 crossover I have is a full size instrument and I wanted to try something a bit smaller. The C10 is all solid spruce and rosewood and I don't want to travel with it so a smaller less expensive guitar was in order.
The Cordoba Cadete is a 3/4 classical guitar size with solid cedar top and laminated mahogany B&S. A 24" scale length is about 1-1/2" shorter than standard, the body width, length and depth are all reduced to 3/4 size. It is very comfortable to play and easy to move around the fretboard, nut width is 48mm=1/7/8". I bought it used so no worries about travelling with it to the cottage, camping and friends places.
It really does have a nice sweet full tone that compares favorably to the C10 which costs 3X as much. Below are pictures, including a line up for size, far left is my Taylor GS mini, the Cadete is identical in over all length.
The Cordoba Cadete is a 3/4 classical guitar size with solid cedar top and laminated mahogany B&S. A 24" scale length is about 1-1/2" shorter than standard, the body width, length and depth are all reduced to 3/4 size. It is very comfortable to play and easy to move around the fretboard, nut width is 48mm=1/7/8". I bought it used so no worries about travelling with it to the cottage, camping and friends places.
It really does have a nice sweet full tone that compares favorably to the C10 which costs 3X as much. Below are pictures, including a line up for size, far left is my Taylor GS mini, the Cadete is identical in over all length.
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