Taylor Custom Grand Auditorium Western Red Cedar/Tasmanian Blackwood Natural Aged Toner Top w/Shaded Edgeburst Back/Sides ES2

As a Taylor Custom dealer, Chicago Music Exchange works with Taylor to choose from an assortment of the company’s finest tonewoods—including non-standard species and premium grades—plus, a rich palette of feature options and premium appointments that will bring your distinctive Taylor dream guitar to life!

To give CME customers a truly next-level Taylor acoustic, Chicago Music Exchange CEO Andrew Yonke and Director of New Product Dan Bordonaro went to the factory themselves and hand-selected the tonewoods used on the Taylor Custom models in our Acoustic Room—like this Taylor Custom Grand Auditorium, which features a Western Red Cedar top with a Natural Aged Toner finish, paired with Tasmanian Blackwood back and sides sporting Taylor’s Shaded Edgeburst finish.

Grand Auditorium Cutaway
Taylor’s medium-sized Grand Auditorium body shape offers balanced highs and supportive lows, making it a versatile choice fit for nearly any playing style. With its 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.

Custom Appointments
Custom appointments include a figured mahogany neck with a satin finish, a two-piece back (no wedge), an ebony peghead veneer, ebony binding, an abalone single-ring rosette with a bound soundhole, Taylor’s small diamond mother-of-pearl fretboard inlays, and Taylor Gold tuners. It features a gloss finish to showcase the natural woodgrain of the Western Red Cedar top and the Shaded Edgeburst finish on the back and sides.

V-Class Bracing
This Taylor Custom Grand Auditorium model features Taylor’s innovative 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. 

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