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Years ago, my guitar instructor told me that one big difference between higher quality classical and Spanish guitars and lower quality classical and Spanish guitars was the ability of the higher quality guitars to provide good volume at the top of the guitar (i.e., the high notes). By lower quality, I don't mean really inexpensive. At the time, the conversation was probably a comparison of something that was $5000 to something that was $1000.

One guitar to consider which, sadly, appears to have been recently discontinued, is the Gibson Chet Atkins CE/CEC. This was a solid body guitar with sound chambers and nylon strings. Sound was picked up by a transducer and there were individual volume controls for each string so that you could crank up the high notes as desired. I *think* that the lead guitarist for the Gypsy Kings played one of these at one time (at least). The SST was the steel string variant, also discontinued.