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Taylor 114e Sitka/Walnut Grand Auditorium ES2 LEFTY w/Gig Bag
Taylor’s 100 series guitars are designed to produce rich tones at an accessible price. Serving up bold, assertive acoustic tone with strong projection from the solid spruce top, the layered walnut back and sides offer solid-sounding support in the lower registers, providing a dynamic response that makes these models a fitting choice for strummers, flatpickers, and fingerpickers alike.
Grand Auditorium
The brand’s flagship body shape, the Taylor Grand Auditorium’s medium size offers balanced highs and supportive lows, making it a versatile choice that’s fit for nearly any playing style. Boasting bold, balanced tone, the Taylor Grand Auditorium provides vibrant, well-defined sound across the entire tonal spectrum, thanks to a more tapered waist than a traditional dreadnought, making the Taylor Grand Auditorium the Swiss Army Knife of Taylor’s body shapes.
V-Class Bracing
The Taylor Grand Auditorium features Taylor’s innovative new V-Class bracing, which lets the soundboard of the guitar vibrate naturally, increasing sustain and overall cohesiveness, and generating additional volume without sacrificing sustain. This design puts the body more in tune with the strings, improving articulation and harmonic alignment, resulting in a sound that is optimally warm and seasoned, nicely blended, and full of luscious low end without being muddy.
ES2 Electronics
The Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) delivers the latest technology in Taylor acoustic guitar amplification. The heart of the ES2 system is Taylor’s patented behind-the-saddle pickup, featuring three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. The new positioning enables the piezo pickup’s crystals to respond more naturally to the guitar’s energy as it is transferred through the saddle, with three pickup sensors installed behind the saddle, through the bridge, with three tiny Allen screws that calibrate the position of the sensors in relation to the saddle. Together with Taylor’s custom-designed preamp, this ES2 system produces exceptional amplified tone and responsiveness.
Series: | Taylor 100 Series |
Country of Manufacture: | Made in Mexico |
Product Color: | Natural |
Case Type: | Gig Bag Included |
Factory Setup: | .012-.053, E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body Shape: | Grand Auditorium |
Body Material: | Walnut |
Body Finish: | Matte |
Top Material: | Sitka Spruce |
Bracing Material: | Spruce |
Bracing Pattern: | X-Bracing |
Body Binding: | Black |
Rosette: | White Plastic 3 Ring |
Purfling: | Black/White |
Neck Material: | Hard Rock Maple |
Neck Finish: | Matte |
Neck Shape: | Standard Carve |
Fingerboard Material: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
Headstock Veneer: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
Nut Material: | NuBone |
Nut Width: | 1.6875" |
Fingerboard Radius: | 15" |
Scale Length: | 25.5" |
Number of Frets: | 20 Frets |
Neck Joint: | Taylor Neck, Bolt-On |
Fingerboard Inlay: | Pearloid Dots |
Inlay Shape: | Dots |
Side Marker Inlay: | Silver |
Acoustic Electronics: | ES2 |
Controls and Switching: | Volume, Bass, Treble |
Hardware Color: | Chrome |
Bridge: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
Tuning Machines: | Die-Cast Chrome with Chrome Buttons |
Saddle: | Micarta |
Pickguard: | Black |
Truss Rod Cover: | Black |
Bridge Pins: | Black ABS |
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