Darn, Irv! I gave my classical guitar books to my niece and cannot remember which ones they were. I will see if I can spot them on Amazon. They were very well organized and well done.

I gave my niece a nice classical, went up in value. I kept my new one because the one I gave her was more valuable and she will play it more. Classical guitar is nice. I couldn’t handle the strings. Too many strings and I can’t bar the chords. Tried for years. Had to say, “Uncle”. I might try the newer one that I kept, again, sometime just for the heck of it, but not seriously. It frustrated me because of of the fingering.

I will see if I can find the two I gave my niece and let you know. My instructor liked them when I brought them to my first lesson.

Oh, I might actually have a couple other classical guitar books in my giveaway box from the Summer. I didn’t want to give my niece more than two methods. If I do have them, I will let you know what they are. If it doesn’t cost much, I can mail them. I will check after I fell better.

Just checked the box I kept putting out front for free with the music books. Oddly enough the guitar books were all scooped out of the box. All that was left is a bunch of piano lesson books and song books, and individual song sheet music. 

I will see if I can find the titles of the ones I gave my niece online and let you know which ones they are.

@Irv BTW, I took the Progressive book to Staples and had it spiral bound. Something to consider with any method book you get. They are the worst when glue or staple bound because they have so many pages, and are used regularly. My niece was very thankful I had done that when I gave it to her with the banjo, guitar, cello and other books. Oh, the Progressive book version I bought came with a CD. 

After I got going pretty good with it, I bought a book that was called, I think, Easy Classical Solos, so that I could do more songs that involved what I had learned, and add a challenge with another song that seemed to have what would be covered next in the Progressive. The Progressive does have many exercises and pieces. The exercises are quite challenging and fun. I really enjoyed playing the classical guitar when I was doing it. I just reached a point where I could not do the fingering and it was very discouraging. 

I like the wider neck and nylon strings on the classical guitar. I also like the sound better than steel string guitars.

Have you thought of banjo? I loved that, too. The long neck was too much for my arm. My shoulder joint was really hurting with it. But, before I developed that issue, I was getting pretty far with it. Seemed to be much easier for me to grasp than the guitar. Maybe because it only had 5 strings. There are 4 string banjos, but I had the 5 string. I took lessons with night courses at a community college but shortly after, I had to stop.

Now, if you still have time, you could also add a viola!