Taylor Custom Shop GA-E Grand Auditorium #1211103098 - natural

Made from species we've hand-selected from Taylor's California factory inventory, the TAYLOR Custom Shop GA-E Grand Auditorium #1211103098 is an exceptional instrument, both acoustically and aesthetically. This Grand Auditorium electro-acoustic steel-string acoustic guitar with cutaway features a torrefied Sitka Spruce top, a Honduras Rosewood back and side combo, a Mahogany neck and an Ebony fingerboard.

Sitka Spruce is the traditional choice for the vast majority of acoustic guitars. Thanks to a perfect balance between robustness and elasticity, Sitka generates a direct, punchy sound with impeccable articulation. These characteristics give this species great tonal flexibility and adaptability to virtually any playing style: strumming, flatpicking or fingerpicking. Highly prized, Honduras Rosewood is much denser than other rosewood species. This contributes to its harmonic richness and complexity. It produces incomparable hushed tones while preserving the clarity of more traditional rosewoods. For these reasons, Honduran Rosewood is the preserve of the most prestigious acoustics, and naturally benefits from the V-Class bracing, which represents a milestone in the field of acoustic guitars. These innovative bracings, developed by master luthier Andy Powers, give the instrument superior projection, better tonal balance, optimized intonation and remarkable sustain. The Grand Auditorium or 000 size is the consensus. In an ideal intermediate position between the Grand Concert (00 Classical style) and the essential Dreadnought, it combines ergonomics and tonal balance. It's certainly the most versatile format, suitable for flat-pickers as well as finger-pickers.Taylor Expression System 2 Preamp: to faithfully reproduce the amplitude and fundamental character of their acoustics, it took Taylor several years to develop the Expression System (ES). Thanks to new sensors and a substantially redesigned circuit, Expression System 2 offers even greater responsiveness and dynamics, and according to Taylor, around 25% more warmth.