[romwell]

You can compensate for latency with a lot of practice, but playing anything with a sharp attack is not joyful when it's over 10-20ms -- especially so if you are used to playing an instrument which doesn't much of it (i.e. pretty much anything but a church organ :) )

[hyperpallium]

And guitar (and piano) are classified as percussive instruments, for though they have strings, the strings are struck.